Creating the Universe with Unix Commands
# In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth> suPassword: jehovah> mkdir heaven earth# And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.>mkdir light# And God divided the light...
View ArticleBalls.
Two years ago, the Scottish Government released Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, on grounds of ill health. He returned to Libya to...
View ArticleThe Dilbert Stages of Professional Cynicism
Over the years, I have come to believe that there are three stages to one's professional career, and that those stages may be defined relative to ones opinion of the work of Scott Adams, specifically...
View ArticleThe Ephemeral Nature of Knowledge
Okay, it's a pretentious title, but you're just to going to have to deal with it.This post is at least partly to defend my (annoying?1) tendency to never state anything in definitive terms. There are...
View ArticleSchrodinger's Cat Experiment: Mark I
As cultured and educated people, you are no doubt aware of Schrodinger's Cat. What you are probably not aware of is the distressing truth behind this famous thought experiment and the resulting cover...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Surface Pro UK Release Schedule
Late 2012: Microsoft announces they are making the Surface with Windows 8 Professional.February 2013: Microsoft release the Surface Pro in North AmericaApril 2013: Microsoft release the Surface Pro in...
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