Came across a great quote attributed to Bjarne Stroustrup (the inventor of C++) while reading the Python Tutor mailing list today:
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it  harder, but when you do,it blows away your whole leg."
Who said computer science guys can’t be creative…

M-Day (Migration Day) approacheth! Sez here that the day I can migrate this blog to the new Blogger engine is fast approaching. It’s been a little while coming (I blogged about the initial announcement back in August), but I have been happy to wait.
Almost the sole reason for migration (for me and lots of […]

Given a choice, I’d take:

Cloth seats over Leather
Coke over Pepsi
Happiness over Longevity
Gnome over KDE
GMail over MS-Outlook
MS-Excel over Google Spreadsheets
Google Reader over Bloglines
Love over Money
Horton the Elephant over Caillou
A car over an SUV
A Whopper over a Big Mac
Links over Gestures
Podcasts over Satellite Radio
A Tooth ache over an Ear ache
Briefs over Boxers
Peanut Butter over Jam
Oranges over […]