OK, so the secret is out: I’m addicted to Dutch mystery writers. This one is part of the series written by Janwillem van de Wetering about the two Amsterdam cops Grijpstra and De Gier. But the addiction doesn’t just extend to this series. I’m also in love with Maj Sjowal and Per Wahloo’s output, and […]
It strikes me that I’ve stopped talking about books on the blog. Let’s rectify that now. Double Sin is a collection of Agatha Christie shorts, involving Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, but also including some non-series stories with a gothic taste. The title story, while a Poirot, isn’t the best in the book. Infact the […]
Had some contact recently with a person who exemplifies one half of a disturbing dichotomy that is rising among church members.This person was nearly fixated on the devil as the cause of everything that went wrong, both in their own life and in everyone else’s. I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised by this attitude; […]
It’s been a while.
This comes to mind because I’m wading through PHP code breaking down the table-based output someone else has written into non-table-dependent code. It gave me a chance to think about the consequences of table-driven design. The first consequence is invalid code. The particular system I was working with held an XHTML doctype on the output […]
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