Recovery

  Scott goes home.   He gets a thing of bacon out of the fridge.   Fries four or five slices.   Butters two slices of Wonder Bread, pla...

MS Wha-

He had good reason to fret. Signs that Microsoft would be missing the boat in the next decade were already emerging. That very moment at M...

ich wünschte ich wüßte...

Cathy and Cosma both feel that knowing specific programming languages is not essential. To quote Cathy, "you shouldn’t obsess over som...

discretion

Ratio of published posts to drafts: 1149:636.

Yesterday

Gestern wurde ein Humalog KwikPen vergessen. Gestern wurde ein Mammut vergessen. Gestern wurde ein Ring vergessen.  Gestern wurde ein Gebild...

ipse dixit (allegedly)

1. Mr. Chicago Hates Hyphens What’s wrong with hyphens?  Mr. Chicago hates them, loathes them, despises them.  He hates them so much that h...

found in translation

James Morrow on a new translation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic: In the case of Roadside Picnic , the improvements w...