English Food

I wonder which one I should try first?

May 22, 2005 · 1 min · gbilder

Pair Programming

We constantly argue about the pros/cons of Hungarian notation.

May 22, 2005 · 1 min · gbilder

Social bookmarking as telltale

Subscribing to my friends del.icio.us bookmarks has turned out to be a great way of keeping in touch. Seems it might be time to send a condolence card… David just bookmarked the following: Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode Posted on: Tue, May 3 2005 2:49 PM What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X) Posted on: Tue, May 3 2005 2:49 PM Using Disk Utility and fsck for file system maintenance in Mac OS X ...

May 4, 2005 · 1 min · gbilder

The Chowhound Passport

Going to a Szechwan, Thai or Korean restaurant with my friend, David, frequently turns into a pantomime as we try various tactics to convince the staff that we REALLY DO MEAN IT when we say that we want our food authentically spicy- and not some watered down version designed for American/British palates. I don’t think that we are the stereotypical macho, competitive, chile-death capsicum cowboys that can be so annoying at Indian restaurants, but we do like extremes in flavor. ...

March 12, 2005 · 1 min · gbilder

Digital Retro

Seems we are all reminiscing. Went to the Tate Modern recently and, embarrassingly, emerged from the gift shop with the following: “Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer” (Gordon Laing) I remember lusting after practically every machine in here. Sad geek that I am- I particularly lusted after the Jupiter Ace because it came with FORTH as the built-in language. I must have read some article about FORTH, because I was obsessed with it and eventually used in on my Commodore 64. I was also inexplicably enchanted with the language MUMPS. What was wrong with me?

March 10, 2005 · 1 min · gbilder