As you may or may not know, my mother teaches – among other things – grade 9 science at a local high-school. One of the tasks her students must complete is a “Science Portfolio” – a collection of newspaper articles with summaries indicating how they relate to subjects studied in class, as well as a [...]

Note that if you want to know why today has been a really terrible day, scroll down to the bottom of this page. Everything else is just the icing on the cake. Today has been a hell of a day and is definitely up there as one of the worst days in recent memory. I kicked [...]

Just something I wrote a few minutes ago that gave me lulz; if you don’t know what this is from, A) shame on you! B) click here for one of the greatest books of all time. I must not take Engineering Science. Engineering Science is the mind-killer. Engineering Science is the little-death that brings total obliteration. [...]

I found this short essay by Orson Scott Card (author of the ver popular Ender’s Game series) floating around the intertubes. I thought it was a fairly good read, and its also pretty short. So here, take a look: How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing [...]