Lispian’s Radio Weblog :

My friends were befuddled, me, the geek with no notebook computer, no data link on my phone, just a pencil, two pens (red and black), and some notebooks. They looked at me as though I were mad.

I’ve been of the paper-notebook-carrying persuasion for quite some time. Back when Palms were cool, I […]

I just watched this documentary on NGC, on animals that are seen as associated with the devil for various reasons. Apart from the interesting stories, they present some interesting facts about the interaction between humans and animals over the times.
Wolves, for example, have probably never killed humans except by transferring rabies, but farmers feared […]

Last Thursday morning when I went into the living room after waking up, I noticed that my living room was a bit of a mess and stuff was missing. Apparently I forgot to put the front door on the night lock, so some burglars used the opportunity to take my GSM, my laptop and my […]

…were some of the new words I learned when I accidentally zapped into an MTV/VH1 documentary on the “post-gay society”. Apparently, Ellen DeGeneres triggered quite an avalanche with her coming out, and homophobia is all but gone in lots of circles. In the contrary, straight men are turning to gays for advice, fill their bathroom […]

In Web Hosting - A Market for Lemons, David Welson treats the topic of how to chose a webhoster. I am very much in agreement with his conclusion: chosing a hosting company is basically relying on hearsay, taking a deep breath, swiping your credit card, and hope for the best.
That said, I must say […]

I was looking (with one eye) to a Mythbusters episode on Discovery Europe. It was about whether yawning is contagious. They had some 50 subjects, and came out with 25% yawning in the control group versus 29% yawning in the exposed-to-yawning-group.
Adam and Jamie mentioned the numbers, and after some remark like “yeah, that looks […]

In Havoc With Google Accounts, searchenginewatch.com’s Danny Sullivan gives an extensive analysis of how messy interacting with Google services has become lately–as I am using most of the services (Gmail, AdWords for multiple companies, AdSense and Analytics–and I think Earth has some account system as well), I am happy that someone is raising awareness for […]

This won’t be the homepage of my next employer. I was contacted by a recruiter a couple of weeks ago, and they had some interesting positions open in Switzerland, so I went along.
Last Thursday was what they call a “technical screening”–a 45 minute trivia quiz, basically, carried out by a colleague-to-be. In all honesty, […]

Vanward Technologies [ Interview with TestNG’s Cedric Beust ]:
IDE’s for dynamic languages come nowhere close to this level of functionality, and whenever I program in Ruby or Groovy, having to leave my IDE of choice is not only hard, it sometimes makes me decide against using the dynamic language, even if it’s a clear winner […]