i'm not interested in room with accordion guy, but i like the way he talks about his wonderful house and the requirements of the roommate. - ''*You must act as if you live here. No more recluses.* We've gone through two housemates who retreat to their room, emerging only to microwave burritos.''#

morendil writes about a movie that captures the issues facing software project management. it is a documentary about how a movie fell apart - m. points out that nothing fails because of bad luck, things fail because they are unprepared to DEAL with bad luck - '' "Lost in La Mancha" is full of Dilbert moments. Gilliam mentions at one point that the detailed production schedule that has been drawn up has absolutely no room in it to cover for unexpected events. But he stresses - repeatedly - that he works best under "impossible" conditions. (Risk management ? Who needs risk management ? Wimps need risk management.) '' - that doesn't sound like software AT ALL. ;)#

joi ito realizes he is converting his interaction to P-time, versus M-time, and he provides a definition of what this means. it's the idea of structured time versus unstructured time. - with aggregation, intelligent computer systems, and lots of unstructured information the time has come for ways of semi-organizing your attention and working with, rather than against, the unstructuredness that is so pervasive.#

richard tallent links and writes about an interesting take on the "Are Programmers Engineers?" question. - eric says, '' Programming is the manipulation of complex abstractions. We invent abstractions and give them names. We manipulate them and use them to build things. When our finally product is built, it requires no manufacturing. It is merely a string of bytes. Theoretically, a monkey sitting at the keyboard might accidentally of typed the same string. The product we build cannot be touched or held. It will be worthless in just a few years.'' - and richard adds, ''One key difference: engineers deal with analog chemistry, physics, and mechanics. Programmers deal more often with analog people and information. Even so, most good programmers I know think like engineers, but the best ones also think like artists .'' - it's a very neat question , i like the logic that just because something is taught in the same "College" at the university doesn't mean they are the same.#

america is getting fat and getting fatter. kids, don't be lazy go running. i ride my bike when it's nice out, i'm trying to get myself to be alive enough in the morning to go running. gotta stop staying up late.#

colours on the web via digital web magazine#

don park's vision of blogging - take a picture and it goes to your blog, the OCR kicks in and pulls out the words for syndication and does word frequency analysis to categorize based on the database of categories the editors set up that you never have to worry about - actually that's not what he wrote but its neat#

from boston online is shelley's list of top 10 things men have said to [her] - ''_Is it scary yet?_ (On a second date, in response to my statement at the start of a purportedly creepy movie, "Will you hold my hand if it gets scary?")'' - shelley's tagline: ''Yes, I have a brain, but I would prefer that you love me for my boobs.''#

hah, instacar#

tony wants - ''i just want to be good. i want to write good. i want to fight good. i want to fuck good. i want to rock good. when im with people i want them to have a good time. when im with a girl i want her to think of noone else. when im skateboarding down sunset i want the budhists to say shit weve gone down the wrong path all along.'' - word.#

tony reveals the key line that indicates how hot a date will get: ''so get a sitter.'' - yesss#

kimbly's refinements are like "ad-hoc categories" that get tacked on as you feel like it. another way to think about it is zooming in on something and then looking at it from different angles. - _does this mean 3d interfaces are coming and I can pull out The Glove again?_#

mpt links a comment conversation he had about how Google would (or would not) benefit from usable uris.#

ppi is funny. and so is this report - '' There's been a crackdown on attempted murder in Kalamazoo's ethnic 'restaurant row.' At Aladdin's Palace, undercover officers stopped a hummus-cide in progress. At the Golden Pagoda, police arrested a cook on charges of suey-cide. The Organic Gourmet's owner was arrested for herbicide, and the maitre d' at Pasta Pasta was booked for pesto-cide. ''#

talk about program transformation at green hat. - '' walked away with a few opinions on why these systems are not a great approach to program transformations. These systems are good at local transformations, but not at coordinated interprocedural transformations. If you want to do something more interesting, you will inevitably need some more advanced code analysis routines which don't fit the simple tree walking paradigm. You must have attributes hanging off the tree to hold intermediate information, but these systems usually don't deal with attributes well. Basically, if you use a specialized system for a while, you begin to chaff at its restrictions and yearn for a general programming language. So why not start with a general-purpose language and add your features as libraries and small language extensions (macros). That's the route I took.'' - it's all about building yourself a domain specific "language" on top of the language you're writing in.#