Gina is reading Dickens again. David Copperfield, this time. Dickens is one of her favorite authors. The difficulty that arises when Gina is reading Dickens, is that every 15 minutes or so she bursts out in peals of laughter, or exclaims “Just so!” and says “R0ml, you have to hear this.” Sometimes it’s hard to [...]

I’ve been writing code lately. Makes me feel young, again. Unfortunately, something terrible happened. For some reason (and thereby hangs a tale), I decided to write the application in Brazillian Portuguese. You know, localized for pt-BR only. Based on my Smalltalk days, I decided to write the “Check for Updates” code first. (A Smalltalk programmer [...]

Yes, we do. Here’s what it looks like: Three different kinds of cereals. In their decanters. Yup, that’s part of putting the groceries away. Milk on the refrigerator shelf. Bread in the bread-box. Bananas on the banana hammock. And cereals, of course, decanted. And the empty boxes discarded. It seems that most people don’t decant [...]