Theodicius

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On the Folly of Personality Tests

Filed under: Books— arlen@ 8:49 am

I always view personality tests with a jaundiced eye. They remind me of the story of the college professor who told his students he would like to write their horoscope for them: he took their information and the next time class met, he handed out the workups he’d done for each of them. He asked […]

Testing and PHP

Filed under: Technology— arlen@ 10:14 am

Was talking to folks from a local agency (which shall remain nameless, but has initials) the other day, and the conversation came to development practices. I asked what kind of automated testing they were doing, and was met by a series of blank stares; their testing procedure amounted to “load it up in a browser […]

Mixed Emotions

Filed under: General,Politics,Technology— arlen@ 9:06 pm

OK, not all that mixed, but still…. Fannie Mae hit a little trouble recently with a contractor. I’m glad they caught him in time. But…

CSS and the meaning in presentation

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 12:51 am

There was a time when I was fully in agreement with Eric Meyer on the naming of classes. It made sense to me to create CSS class names based on the structure of the document. In fact, it was the only way that made sense to me. So what changed? Me, I guess. I can’t […]

The Patience Problem

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 1:45 pm

The election is over. The campaign was the easy part. Gary Kasparov’s new editorial, though, underscores the biggest problem our freshly-minted President will have to face. It’s not the economy, or the war, or terrorism, or taxes, or the deficit; these all look simple when compared with the real problem. The shortage of patience.

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