My lastest Baseline column is up, in which I argue that setting up one or more maintenance architects within an enterprise can help reduce maintenance costs while at the same time providing a training path for chief software architects. Let me know what you think.
Sorry things have been a bit quiet here; both Bruce Henderson [...]
Actually, it’s hard to write much of a review without giving away key plot points, so this first part will be brief (and spoilers listed below).
Truly an outstanding film. Not perfect (see the spoilers section), but every bit as tense, intelligent, and morally complex as the crime dramas that regularly get Oscar nominations. Put another [...]
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I discovered Wondermark a few months ago, and it’s become one of my favorite strips. The general conceit is that the illustration largely comes from actual Victorian-era artwork (which has the advantage of being in the public domain). Here’s today’s strip, but click on the strip below to go to the original to read the [...]
I just had a phone conversation with my son Jon (LCPL Webster, USMC), who is somewhere in Iraq. Frankly, the phone call quality was better than when he used to call me from San Diego on his own cell phone. He’s doing well, though he said that when his cohort landed in Kuwait earlier this [...]
My latest Baseline column is up, discussing how to make a distributed software development project work. ..bruce..
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No, not the movie itself — I haven’t seen it yet, though I do have tickets for Friday night.
It’s the movie’s title: “The Dark Knight”. It’s not “Batman: The Dark Knight” or worse yet “Batman II: The Dark Knight” (though I guess technically you’d have to call it “Batman VI: The Dark Knight”). It’s not [...]
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The Onion, as usually, hits the nail right on the head:
WASHINGTON—A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory economic bubble in which to invest.
“What America needs right now is not more talk and long-term strategy, but a [...]
Get your snowboards waxed… the next ice age may be here soon!
I have been talking about how quiet sunspot cycle 24 has been, and how it’s possible that may foretell a cooler period in the Earth’s climate for the next set of years. I have also pointed out that I am a computer engineer, [...]
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The media is full of accounts of the death of one time press secretary and former Fox News presenter Tony Snow. Snow died Saturday, July 12th at 2 AM from the cancer he had been fighting for the last several years.
Readers of this blog know how critical I have been of the candidates in [...]
Here’s the real thing:
Hat tip to Kevin Williamson at the National Review Media blog. ..bruce w..