Archive for March 2008
Levels of Disagreement ∼
That is so right. I do not have to argue, if I follow, do I?
Mims - This Is Why I’m Hot
I could sell a mill saying nothing on the track.
Kanye West - Touch the Sky
I’m trying to right my wrongs,
But it’s funny how them same rights helped me write this song.
Thomas Buttenschøn - Hjerter Dame 
Gør alt jeg kan for at elske det banale
Ville da gerne redde den tredje verden, men har lidt travlt med min kabale.
System of a Down - A.D.D.
We fought your wars with all our hearts,
You sent us back in body parts
People vs. Persons ∼
From the department of language, here is a guide on when to use “persons” and when to use “people”. (Brief version: use “persons” if you want to seem formal, but “people” in most other cases.)
TV-2 - Helt Alene 
Han var [...] rastløs som en satellit.
Learn How to Write ∼
No one wants to invest countless hours in a losing technology… you want to learn something that will be useful in the long run. I have just the skill for you, and it doesn’t matter what language you work with.
Learn to write well.
This is exactly why I want to study English at university, and not something like Computer Science, or other things specifically related to what I want to work with. This also points out a deeper thing about me as a software developer: I am not that much into mathematics. I appreciate it on a simple level, and I do not avoid applying mathematics to my programming, but I am just more interested in communication. This I probably one of the reasons I started working with the Web, and stuck with it. (The other of course being, that when you start out as a 12 year old doing programming, HTML is just a bit easier to grasp.) I am not one of those who want to solve the performance bits of a program, making it run n% faster by tweaking some engine using clever natural science; I am one of those who want to write software that helps people communicate.
Nick Cave - O’malley’s Bar
Don’t shoot I cried,
I’m a man and all.
Bruce Perens for OSI President ∼
Sounds like my choice of a candidate.