I know I should qualify this with "of course, it's terribly irresponsible. If someone had died, what kind of possible excuse..." etc.

But he didn't kill anyone, so I'll just point to the link:

http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun?currentPage=all

This must have been bitter-sweet. Sure, you want to get your rocket back, but talk about going out in a blaze of glory...

A well-written \<a href="http://www.gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reiteration of the premise that complexity is an essential, not accidental, aspect of software construction. [via links for 2007-10-03 Bill de h?ra ]

[C]omputer-science grads saw their average starting salary offers grow by 4.5 percent last year alone. The new average salary for a job right out of college is now \$53,051. That's the highest amount this decade.

Starting salaries surge for computer science grads [Ars Technica]

Interesting. I still …

The only thing that's worse than ignoring a cause is doing something absolutely trivial and patting yourself on the back about it. Apparently if you blog about the environment today, you've done your part. I think there was a day last week when you were supposed to alter your CSS …

Philosophy Bites

\<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">In Our Time I would say that these have nothing to do with software development, but there was actually a great "Philosophy Bites" on vagueness that touched directly on fuzzy logic …

"Citing Medicine" has issued a standard for citing blogs in academic writing, which would like this for this entry:

O'Brien, L. Knowing.NET [blog on the Internet]. Kailua Kona: [Larry O'Brien]. [June 2002] -  [cited 2007 October 13]. Available from http://www.knowing.net/.

The first thing I don't like is …

Between the semi-regularly broken CAPTCHA on my comment system and reports I'm getting from some correspondents, I may have been hard to get in touch with recently. Try lobrien -at- email for a day or two.

Word to the wise: do not combine Windows symlinks with Subversion; it cannot handle them:

G:\svn\websites>mkdir foo

G:\svn\websites>svn add foo
A         foo

G:\svn\websites>svn commit -m "message"
Adding         websites\foo
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: File not found: transaction '39-1', path …

Yuriy Solodkyy demonstrates the \<a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/ysolodkyy/archive/2007/10/07/using-linq-with-system-reflection-classes.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">combination of LINQ and Reflection APIs, a technique which could prove to be tremendously powerful and which strikes me as allowing LINQ-enabled languages to have a level of …