Det må man give ham — det er virkelig noget at gøre i en god sags tjeneste.

BT gør i øvrigt hvad de kan for at understrege at det ikke er en aprilsnar, så jeg tror dem. Fed gestus af manden på toppen af PS&E.

That is so right. I do not have to argue, if I follow, do I?

From the department of language, here is a guide on when to use “persons” and when to use “people”. (Brief version: use “persons” if you want to seem formal, but “people” in most other cases.)

No one wants to invest countless hours in a losing technology… you want to learn something that will be useful in the long run. I have just the skill for you, and it doesn’t matter what language you work with.

Learn to write well.

This is exactly why I want to study English at university, and not something like Computer Science, or other things specifically related to what I want to work with. This also points out a deeper thing about me as a software developer: I am not that much into mathematics. I appreciate it on a simple level, and I do not avoid applying mathematics to my programming, but I am just more interested in communication. This I probably one of the reasons I started working with the Web, and stuck with it. (The other of course being, that when you start out as a 12 year old doing programming, HTML is just a bit easier to grasp.) I am not one of those who want to solve the performance bits of a program, making it run n% faster by tweaking some engine using clever natural science; I am one of those who want to write software that helps people communicate.

Sounds like my choice of a candidate.

It was if [sic] Karl Marx had risen from the dead and was poking people on Facebook.

Quite thorough introduction to the Python Debugger. It is at a very basic level, apparently assuming no real Python experience, but it is a great list over commands for the pdb.

Brutally honest discussion of the hypocrisy displayed by people romanticising “fighting for democracy” without ever having been in the front line.

For settling for one single character set is what we really should.

Jeremy writes about Google’s decision to open up GMail a little by adding a Contacts API. He then sees a pattern in all of this:

I think I might be suffering from some sort of reverse paranoia. The whole world seems to be out to help me.