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Long term growing languages
While last month TIOBE elected Go “language of the year for 2009″, I noticed that, according to their data, only the following languages of the top ten have a positive trend in the long period (2002 – 2009):
PHP;
C#;
Python;
JavaScript.
Writing, 22 years ago
Last December, Andreas asked the following question:
Were computers part of your childhood?
When I was 15 or 16, I wrote a few science fiction short stories, printed by a small book publisher. It was 1988/89 and the web didn’t exist then: I used to write by hand or with a mechanical typewriter. :)
Having published some short [...]
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: an [...]
Blog Action Day: climate change
Having registered this website on the Blog Action Day, I’ll try to write here some notes about climate change.
On their website, it’s stated that
(Climate change) threatens to cause famine, flooding, war, and millions of refugees.
Even though it is undoubtedly true, I’m still persuaded that it’s only a consequence of the deep faith a large part [...]
The Beatles Stereo Box Set
Having booked it before 2009-09-09 09:09, I’ve already got The Beatles Stereo Box Set. I’m simply still too happy to blog about it more than this. :)
Vanderbilts ruins
Mark Jaquith has just written some thoughts about Vanderbilts: dear Mark, do you have to go back to the 19th century to find people “of your kind”? That’s a bit sad and it might tell you something about “the splendor of capitalism”. I don’t want to be too rude so let me add a smiling [...]
Packaged cat :)
Close to /home, I recently found this package containing some version of cat: though I still don’t know if it’s a deb or rpm, I’m pretty sure it hardly works out of the box. :)
The modern Fifth :)
A few days ago, I saw a homeless person shouting at an empty telephone box: he was slowly listing, in a strange solemn tone, the widely known Classical elements:
Earth… Water… Air… Fire… Shit!
Is it perhaps a modern substitute for The Fifth Element? :)
One of these…
Once again, passing by a television set, I happened to notice the soundtrack of an advertisement of an Italian pay-per-view channel: it was One of these things first, tentatively used as a love song (I suppose it was just all about the piano). I wondered how who chose it met Nick’s music.