RasterWeb!

You know, when you read about cameraphones that have 5, 6 or 7-megapixel resolution, you start to wonder about when the device stops being a phone that can take pictures and starts being a camera that can make phones calls…

I once proposed A List for Everyone, which would be a mailing list thats sole purpose would be to annoy, confuse, and frustrate people…

While I’m sure this is still an excellent idea, I think that the mailing list I should really start should be called “Editor Wars” and it would solely deal with the issue of which editor is “better” than the others. I’m not just talking emacs and vi, we’d get folks who like jEdit, and BBEdit, and UltraEdit, and nano/pico, and heck, even those Eclipse guys could join in!

I’d plan on getting sponsorship from the various companies that make text editing software (and maybe some soft drink companies) and I’m pretty sure I’d make a million. (A million what I’m not quite sure…)

I’m telling you, Editor Wars just has a nice ring to it… and it could be my ticket out of this one-editor town I’ve been living in…

What do you think? Want to join my list?

I got a cut today, no big deal, some blood, a band-aid, it’s ok…

Well, it’s not ok actually, there is a major problem. It’s on the tip of my right index finger. That would be the finger I use for dialing the phone, or clicking a mouse, or worse of all… typing!

Is there a fate worse for a computer nerd type geekoid than a slightly disabled index finger? I mean, I’d rather have gotten a cut on my hand, or arm, or even my ruggedly handsome face, but for a code hacker… the fingers? Anything but the fingers!

A lot of peopl don’t know this but at Flickr, they have some uniqu job titles… For instance, they have programmrs, and managrs, and of course thy hav a presidnt, and mny othr vry importnt positns in th compny, so like next time you use Flickr, jst rmmbr tht….

There’s comments, and then there are comments…

I mean, you comment your code, the code that most likely only you will be dealing with, so that you can figure out what the heck you were thinking/doing/etc. when you look at that code months later, right? And those comments make sense to you, at least you hope. I mean, you wrote them!

Then there’s the case where that same code has to go to someone else, and you end up adding a million more comments in the hope that what you wrote makes sense to that someone else. Someone who isn’t really as versed in Perl (or whatever language) as you probably are. Hurm…

There goes all my scripts that were nice and compact at under 500 lines of code. Well, actually, they’re all still under 500 lines of actual code, I’ve just added 100 lines of comments, or so it seems…