Difficult Systems

CodeBetter’s Jeremy Miller has 14 reasons why your system is hard to work with.  The most notable ones for me have been:

- #2 Poorly organized code: as I am still a n00b of sorts with web programming, I’m still contributing to this problem but I have gotten better.

- #11 Duplication:  with as many as 5 different people at one time with their hands in code and not many of us knowing what the crap we were doing, there is still huge amounts of redundant code spread across our system.  At the very least, I’ve started functionalizing and making includes for it when I’ve been able

Have a nerd-a-licious time

With this Text-to-Binary Code translator.  Hours (I mean minutes) of fun. 

Where’s my joe?

Slashdot reports that coffee can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s.  Nice.

This is why:

This is why I was ok with Florida beating Alabama, and why I wanted Tebow to win the Heisman again, and why I want Florida to take the National Championship. 

In response to “cynical naysayers” Tebow had this to say:

“So if it’s cynical or whatnot, that’s fine. If people don’t believe it, that’s fine. There’s always going to be naysayers, people that are going to say it’s fake. But that’s fine because you can’t control everybody. But I can control what I do, my attitude, how I approach the situation. So how I approach the situation is I want to do everything in my power that football gives me to influence as many people as I can for the good because that’s gonna mean so much more when it’s all said and done than just playing football and winning championships.” (my emphasis)

Read Pat Fordes article, it’s well worth it. 

iPhone, now serving beer

the Serv O’Beer pours via the iPhone.

Verizon and Alltel

It’s the network, and it’s growing.