http://www.mckechnie.net/ things that happen on your way to somewhere else en-us 2011-06-24T15:04:33+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/06/as_good_as_the.php Key quote "All I can think about is that I hope that I live long enough to watch it all happen. Even if it all ends in a clusterfuck of destruction, it is going to be a lot of fun."... Journalism Michael 2011-06-24T15:04:33+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/04/walker.php .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { float: right; width: 150px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; margin-right: 10px; } .flickr-caption { font: 75%; /* color: #666666; */ margin-top: 0px; } .flickr-buddyicon { margin-right:5px; vertical-align:middle; border:... 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Mike via Flickr 2011-04-13T09:10:00+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/03/meow_1.php Kittens: “either smothered in onions or in a ragout they are excellent” - An Open Mind | Futility Closet via Boing Boing... Journalism Michael 2011-03-24T12:57:41+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2011/03/flat_backlogs_a_1.php "We spend lots of time working with our customers. We work hard to understand their goals, their users, and the major parts of the system we could build. Then we finally get down to the details - the pieces of... Development Michael 2011-03-16T11:55:55+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/05/history_of_prog.php In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension" - from One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming... Commentary Michael 2010-05-11T19:14:07+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/03/marriage_expert.php Why is the center for disease control the authority for the statistically significant attributes of marriage? Marriages last longer than living together? - Yahoo! News... Commentary Michael 2010-03-03T05:33:32+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/02/uzbeks.php "An employee of the Uzbek general prosecutor’s press office said that only his manager was authorized to comment and that the manager’s position was at present unfilled." Priceless. From New York Times... Journalism Michael 2010-02-11T14:59:31+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2010/01/enterprise_comp.php Tim Bray pegs it nicely; the solution is less clear. "The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost... Development Michael 2010-01-06T14:20:35+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2009/05/db_optimisation.php "I’ve been in a lot of Cloud-flavored discussions recently about what kind of Platform-as-a-Service offerings might hit sweet spots. On several occasions, People Who Should Know have said things like “A huge proportion of apps, even really big apps, can... Development Michael 2009-05-27T11:27:32+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2008/06/tom_glocer_sail.php Tom Glocer sails off on a sea of others' troubles - Times Online In an act of callousness that might have brought a blush to the cheeks of Marie Antoinette herself, Tom Glocer, the Thomson Reuters chief executive, has chartered... Journalism Michael 2008-06-03T12:03:29+01:00 http://www.mckechnie.net/archives/2008/05/car_lover.php He added: "There are moments way out in the middle of nowhere when I see a little car parked and I swear it needs loving." Man admits 'having sex' with 1,000 cars - Telegraph... 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