Okay, okay. We could quibble with the wording. Shouldn’t that be “the average blogger’s“? Does “81% shorter than” mean “81% as long as” or does it mean “19% as long as”? And who knows how accurate this is, or how they calculate the average length of a blogger (or his/her posts)? Surely it can’t mean [...]

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It makes no difference that I’ve been a computer programmer for nearly 30 years now. There are computer programmers and there are computer programmers. If your assignments (actual or potential) don’t require you to use a given technology, chances are you’ll never learn that technology. Meanwhile, the world passes you by in the form of [...]

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Last month, I reported on a new initiative which our local neighborhood was undertaking — a neighborhood crime watch. The Missus and I learned of this initiative, as I said, via a letter from our street’s block captain: “As your block captain, I will be asking for you to provide phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, [...]

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A while back, I said I’d be trying to fix things so that printouts of Running After My Hat posts would look more like “real” articles or stories as opposed to Web-based content: omitting the left and right margins, increasing text font sizes, and so on.
Just in time for the ginormous “Fay, Part 2” post, [...]

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In lieu of a longer post still in the works, and with a nod to writing in the water’s current discussion of knowing when the story is done, and done well and right: I offer this, Folk Tale #6 from Book Two (”Fire”) of The Zen of Programming:
Five novices went into the master’s office, crying [...]

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So, The Missus indulged herself by going on a beach mini-weekend with a girlfriend.
Of course I pounced on the opportunity for a hedonistic erstwhile-bachelor weekend of my own.
And before you get your collective backs up (or, alternatively, let your collective imagination run riot): no, I didn’t do anything that a stereotypical bachelor does. Even an [...]

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