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It all starts with the following parent: are you done? toddler: no I'm done. This reminds me of the occasional adult failure to u...

For a while now, I have had to boostrap my reading habit. Short stories have usually sufficed in the past. But I might have hit a new low wh...

What do you think Bappi Lahiri's build tool of choice is? Why Maven of course. "How so?" you ask. Well, haven't you heard...

What does one say when a man like Vishal Bhardwaj praised for his skills in writing dialogue surprises you pleasantly by becoming a scribe ...

After finding bearable exposition with Michael Connelly and being disappointed at finding Dan Brownian exposition in Michael Crichton'...

Q: what is a trochee? A: a trochee. Thanks so much, Randall .

Estimates are so popular in software development. You know they don't mean much. But those who ask for them defend them fervently and ev...

A family rides on a motorcycle. It's not just a husband and a wife. There are two kids sandwiched between them, fast asleep while their ...

Thank the world of IT to come up with zingers like I had checked with [the IT department] for the slowness issue. They rebooted it and now t...

Employees of the corporate world are no doubt familiar with crapspeak and its unfortunate and inevitably growing influence on the English la...

despair is an anagram of diapers . I am sure we are supposed to learn something from that but I don't know what. The Ninth Configurati...

I stood before my shelf of paperbacks wondering which one to read next and finally decided to try Ronald Munson's Fan Mail only because...

I just finished reading a copy of The Terminal Man , Michael Crichton's second novel after doing really well with The Andromeda Strain ....

In September 2012, the OpenJDK bug database moved to JIRA . Elsewhere, in the JIRA Knowledge Base, we have a page telling us that the Open...