Time to leave
They can’t wait for the {night, weekend, holidays, retirement} to begin. Are they waiting for their own death too?
Spreading Kiva
Using the common “business as usual” models, someone might say that the global systemic crisis hit me too: well, I can still help people. :) A friend of mine invited me to join Kiva which is a very useful and interesting mashup website. I’ve just loaned a few Euros to a small farmer in Bolivia: [...]
Vim: Hall of honour
Again I’m (…) living through that time of the year when many people around me are going to celebrate the birth of the son of a god in whom they “believe” and even atheists and the like are doing their best to be better. :) I’ve just done something I should have done many years [...]
Waves of desolation
I didn’t find the reference but it seems that Plutarch once wrote that the main difference between boys and men is the deep desolation a man feels immediately after a moment of ecstasy. It’s ages since I was a boy and being aware of it doesn’t help anyhow.
Deep thoughts hardly vanish
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for Why do we need to do a campfire at night? Perphaps this is not the right question: a better question would be “Why do we want to have a campfire at night?”. We don’t live in the wilderness [...]
Manuals and monkeys
One big difference between a monkey and a human is in their intelligence so every time it’s definitely sad to realize that the average project manager is driven to believe that giving a good manual to a monkey (written by a human of course) could help the hairy animal to fill its gap.
