Archive for August 18th, 2008

Bugtation No.7

Monday, August 18th, 2008

This bugtation is identical to the original quotation:

“Thank you for not dividing by zero.”

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Encouraged by this I propose another one :-)

“Thank you for checking for NULL pointers.”

Dmitry Vostokov

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Beijing Bytes report

Monday, August 18th, 2008

New cartoon from Narasimha Vedala captures recent rumors about the opening of Olympics:

DBG_BeijingBytes from Narasimha Vedala

Just to remind you that China is 6th on my Memory Dump Awareness Index.

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Bugtation No.6

Monday, August 18th, 2008

“I admit that” debugging “is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.”

Aldous Leonard Huxley

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LiterateScientist update (June - August, 2008)

Monday, August 18th, 2008

There were no updates last two months primarily because I was still reading huge books 1,000 pages each. One of them was The Road to Reality that I started in March and finished only a few weeks ago. When I was about two-thirds through it and I thought that I could never finish it a sign happened to shed the light on the possible end. While commuting from work a shadow from the train window sign projected ”Exit” on the book and I asked  to take a picture of this event:

LiterateScientist Blog:

Under Pressure

Breaking the Spell

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

The Skeptical Environmentalist

Ideas and Modern Mind 

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