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So this link got tossed around our developer chat at work the other day, mostly to make fun of the idea and put down its author, but I find myself intrigued to the point that I can’t stop thinking about it. Why not have a set of personal unit tests?
Let’s be blunt; I pretty [...]

O’Reilly should totally make board books.
Suggested titles:

The Very Hungry Regular Expression
Goodnight Ruby
The Ugly Duckling’s Guide to Perl
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You C++?
The Tale of Peter Python

Hmm. I could be on to something…

Mood:brilliant

Six years ago today, it was my first day at AG.com. Quitting IBM (six years and three days ago) was my birthday gift to myself. I was 23, living in engaged pseudo-sin, and was just glad to be able to see in the inside of our apartment on a regular basis. Liz [...]

Doesn’t feel a lot different than twenty-eight, not really. Not yet.
Hmm.

Mood:odd
Music:Pink Floyd – “Time”

A spot of interesting reading: Times Online article on the biology of happiness. We may, in fact, be hardwired by millennia of cognitive development to accentuate the negative. Can we learn to prolong and improve our lives simply by finding ways to outwit countless generations of neurological heritage?

Mood:intrigued

Dear London,
So very sorry to hear your sad news today. We were all quite happy for you yesterday with the Olympics and all, and it was so nice to see you turn out for Live8 over the weekend.
You seem to be handling everything okay, so I think you will be all right once you [...]

I could vent at length about my day, but there’s really no point.
Instead, I would just like to pause and note that today is 05/05/05, or, as I have decided to call it, “Cinco Cubed”. The next coolest date for Cinco de Mayo will be 2055, and I doubt that by the next time [...]

Random impressions and thoughts from the past couple of days…
Say what you will about various political figures, Bruce Springsteen friggin’ rules.
Apparently CWRU is slammin’! How odd. Had Case been “slammin’” while I was there, I still don’t think I would have had a very good time.
Last night I had to try to remain [...]

Saw this on the evening news tonight and was so amused that the only thing I could do was pause and take a rudimentary screen capture with my aging camera. Apologies in advance for the immensely poor quality of the image, but I felt like this had to be shared…
During a story about separation [...]

We buried Pixel this evening as the sun set, in a patch of garden in the back of our yard where she would have plenty of bugs, birds, and deer to chase. She’ll get a mix of relaxing shade and lovely, golden sunbeams, the kind that linger like butterfly kisses on a late summer [...]