I opted to join the OpenId crowd.  Do I really have any use for OpenId?  No, not really.  Now that I have it, I’ll see where I can use it and start trying to utilize it. Here’s the link to my OpenId page, for your perusal: http://openid.programmersparadox.com/mmzyk I signed up with myOpenId, but that might [...]

Picked up on the Internet history meme from Tim Bray. Here are my results: ~ markmzyk$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”, a[i],i}}’ | sort -rn|head 67    ls 54    cd 31    erl 25    vi 22    pwd 13    exit 7    sudo 7    ./configure 6    cp 4    source Nothing exciting what so ever.  Hadn’t [...]

Within the code-base, as already mentioned, defensive programming can cause defects to become entrenched. Instead, we should adopt a more confident style, where code fails hard and fast. – Stop the clock, squash the bug I heartily agree with that statement.  I think it can be reworded in this way: Fail, then fix the failure, [...]