Archive for: January 2008

A while back, I posted some rules for writers, written by people wiser than myself. I have just run across a few more, the rules of Eric Blair, better known by his pseudonym of George Orwell:

Never use a …

Via Bill Simmons, here’s the last lap of the 10,000 meters run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics:

American Billy Mills made up about 15 meters in the last 50, …

So I was driving home a little over a week ago. I parked in the driveway, unhooked my iPod Shuffle from the stereo, and went into my house. Everybody was hungry so I started in on dinner right …

Saw Two Lane Blacktop over the New Year’s holiday. It’s the story of two drifters who take their souped-up ‘55 Chevy from town to town, drag racing when they can find a taker. Essentially they’re hustlers.

Along the way …

The .NET framework, and especially version 2.0, has made life a lot easier for programmers. In that past it wasn’t especially easy to create multi-threaded programs, but now it’s really pretty simple.

I have a program that downloads data from …