More random posting. Not quite done with our hours for today, but again, can't stop myself. Check out the title of this LGF posting:
The "!=" operator, meaning 'not equal' is not yet common currency in English, so Charles Johnson is a C dork... or maybe a Javascript dork.
This usage is a feature of the C language, and since has been used in C's many children (C++, Objective C, javascript, Java, and C# to name a few). It was not present in BCPL (one of C's ancestors), which used ~= as the not-equal operator. I can't find an online reference for B, C's direct parent.
Anyway. The sort of thing that catches a programmer's eye, when he's lazy and sleep-deprived.
I don't want to waste my energy on links, since I have a couple of essays I want to write. But I can't stop myself from writing about this BBC gem:
Persistent reports from senior Arab sources, as well as more recently from Israel, have claimed that Egypt and other countries helped Iraq to dismantle its arsenal during the four years after the last group of UN weapons inspectors left the country in 1998.If that is true - and the Egyptians have denied it angrily - the process simply was not enough.
When Hans Blix, the head of the inspection effort, reported to the UN on Monday, it was clear his team had serious doubts about the genuineness of Iraq's effort to clear out its weapons.
Iraq genuinely tried to give up its weapons of mass destruction, you see. They just can't find them all! Even with Egypt's help, they just couldn't find all their WMD caches. They lost the map and locked the keys inside the bunker.
.. it looks like we're going to make our ridiculously heavy hour target for this month. This work month started on January 10, when we got back from California. We wasted many hours, probably several full days, playing "The Sims". And in the last few days, when we needed to work more than 50% time (i.e., more than half the hours in each day) to make our goal, my wife and I got sick.
But it looks like we're going to make it.
Next month, we'll start earlier.
I have a couple of posts coming together in my head, one about communism and one about minimum wage, but that'll have to wait until after we hit our target and break out the vodka.