To live, to love, and to leave a legacy.

If programming is 50% reading code (don’t forget bug-fixing and the inevitable maintainance), readable code is cheaper. Besides, ever try to work with somebody elses code? Point proven! So add comments and spend some time to make your code a work of art even you mom would like to look at. Does form follow function?…

Although I haven’t used them so far, the JavaScript User Interface Elements by Jonathan Wise seem very interesting. See also: ActiveWidgets. One could even try a fully loaded LAMP Application Server.

If you don’t keep learning, it’s time to do something else! The info came at a good time in my life (I’ll explain later) – I guess it has to be that way. She also said: “the best move I ever made was to get a sales experience“.

good tools (that they can control) a good space (quiet, large and flexible enough to accommodate moods) make things interesting (e.g.: allow learning and avoid repetition) set high standards allow them to concentrate/focus allow them to understand/see the context you always need more “hackers” together, as they produce square their group number you can not…

The mind alone is the reason for your bondage or liberation.

The reason why ASR (e.g.: audio to text) is important and is going to happen is that the cost (both time, focus and mental capacity) of finding/selecting the right audio(section) is much higher than the cost for searching and (the subsequential) scanning of text. Especially considering that audio is much cheaper to make (again, based…

These people I still remember after 10 years are on the “Still Missing” list: Doug Cobb Katie McLaughlin Erin Mills Saskia Napieralla Jason Navarra Crystal O’Dell Casey Crump Edit Czvalinga Bill Doyle Heather Peck Cory Powell Karolina Zaludova Would be especially cool if more AFS people where “in town”. Email me if you want to…

Bad behavior is tolerated because government has intimidated good people. A government that cannot control crime for some reason often gets hysterical when good people defend themselves. In a sane society, it would be the criminals who lived in fear, not the good people. Quotes from “So Much Has Changed in Just 60 Years” by…

The pain of choice & choices: there is an optimum number of choices for everything. Luxery: people spend more and more time on “choices”. Is this “good” for the planet?

I want one of those wood-heated outdoor bathtubs.