Language Peeves
November 6th, 2005Phil Ringnalda grinds his teeth when people say depreciated instead of deprecated. I know how he feels. The one that bothers me is hearing people say orientated instead of oriented, as in “object orientated.”
Phil Ringnalda grinds his teeth when people say depreciated instead of deprecated. I know how he feels. The one that bothers me is hearing people say orientated instead of oriented, as in “object orientated.”
I’ve made some changes to my blog.
When i started blogging, I didn’t know quite what to expect. Over time, two main topics emerged: PHP and Politics. I’ve decided that the two topics should really be two separate blogs. This blog will continue to focus on PHP, software design, web design, agile methods […]
I remember Chuq Von Rospach’s sig on USENET posts from when I first discovered it in 1989. Now, he declares the USENET era is over. Kinda sad.
I stopped using USENET when the AOL newbies flooded it, and when browser software took off and newsreader software did not.
I ran across this blog entry wishing Core Wars a happy 20th Birthday. Its hard to believe that it has been 20 years. I was fascinated by the Scientific American articles when they came out.
Around the time it came out, I was interested in artificial life and evolution. I used […]
Well, I’ve done it now. I went out of town for the weekend and left my cell phone charger. I am not sure why I even took it, my phone has good battery life and I can easily get a three day weekend with normal use out of a single charge. Now […]
Since I am now tracking a dozen squared (144) feeds/blogs on a daily basis in NetNewsWire, I feel like its time that I joined the party with a blog of my own.