Creativity

General 2004-08-02

A for the geeks variant on how to be creative is available at GapingVoid. I must admit disagree with his way of thinking, but by the sound of it, he’s trying to make people think big and beyond. I’d prefer introducing people to the subtleties. But I’m no teacher, so when I find that someone has done this, I’ll link to him. :)


In his article on Great Hackers, Paul Graham works on how productive coders actually like to work. This is a little piece I hope my current, my future and my past employers will read. While I’m sure they are heaps of exceptions, this is very much how it works for me. So if this is the kind of work I’ll be doing, do read.


Hendrik Scholz has made a great case in his article FreeBSD source keyword statistics that FreeBSD hackers should stop writing comments, or lie when writing them ;-)


An interesting site is http://www.seewhatyoushare.com where a lot of documents and images have been revieled that apparently have been shared through P2P networks. Someone learn the military how to use a computer. Anyways, the really great picture among them is this:

From seewhatyoushare.com


Hot Coffee

General 2004-07-06

Remember Seinfeld’s sketch with Kramer and the hot coffee? Well… happened to me today. You know it’s a dangerous occupation when you have to go three stories to get a good cup of coffee