Archive for September, 2009
I listen to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood on the Stack Overflow Podcast and yell at the radio.
Saturday, September 19th, 2009From comments they’ve made, I’m sure I’m not the only one. Here’s an open letter to them:
Dear Joel and Jeff,
You lauched Server Fault for SysAdmins, but you admit to not knowing that crowd as well as you know the programming crowd. That’s fine. But you need to find someone who does understand that crowd — [...]
Environmentalists have it wrong — the economies of scale and inventing the future
Thursday, September 10th, 2009There’s a push on to ‘return’ to the idylic times where a man would work the farm chatting to his cows while his lovely wife baked a loaf of bread (probably with a dab of flour on her nose) while a pail of milk (direct from the aforementioned cows) stands on the bench beside her.
There’s a push on to do-it-yourself. To be handy around the garden and home. To plant one’s own vegetables and to bake one’s own bread.
But is that really good for the environment? I doubt it