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Price of Beer Expected to Rise

It seems that the price of beer will be going up. Here's the text of an email from Weyerbacher Brewing Co.

Rewarding the Clueless

Today, Alcatel-Lucent announced that U.S. patent 6839436 has received a 2007 Thomas Alva Edison Award from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey.

Old Local News

Today at work people kept wandering over toward me to congratulate me. I found this rather confusing as I could not think of anything that I had done or that had happened to me that might cause this.

Coffee with Your Sex?

Mail & Guardian reports today that DKT International has introduced coffee flavored condoms in Ethiopia in an effort to encourage safer sex.

Wait! That's not Reentrant!

Sometimes when writing a program I will skip the design stage and just hack together a proof of concept for some feature to make suere I understand the problem. Once I have something that works, I go back, write up a real design, and rewrite that feature from scratch following a sane and extendable design.