OpenIDSaturday, 27th March 2004
It’s only going to get worse
This analysis of the spread of the witty worm is fascinating for a whole bunch of different reasons. [... 395 words]
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (via) Debugging and social skills in the same document. 
1:21 am
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (via) On of those problems you really want to be able to ignore. 1:22 am
HTTP 101. What everyone should know about HTTP. 1:23 am
“It’s All Bad News” (via) The situation in Iraq, from a freelance reporter living there since April 2003. 9:27 pm
Omit needless words, codified
I continue to try to improve my writing. “Omit needless words” is all well and good, but identifying needless words can be a difficult task for the untrained eye. Paul Ford’s Passivator bookmarklet highlights adverbs and passive verbs, both of which can indicate weak writing. [... 46 words]
Contact Information (Ftrain.com). This made me smile. 10:26 pm
