10. 2006 October

10.1 Sunday, October 1

1. A Small World is a Big Deal. By Jonathan Erickson. [81]

2. Software as a service. By David Dame. [55]

3. Interview of Chris Crawford: Interactive Storytelling: Is this the future of computer games?. By Michael Swaine. [394]

   A good read is Crawford's book about interactive storytelling. I think it's called ``Interactive Storytelling''.

4. Parameterized Communication. By Per Harald Myrvang. [197]

5. Java Cryptography & Attribute Certificate Management. By Sucurovic & Jovanovic. [390]

6. AJAX & Record Locking. By David Perelman-Hall. [209]

7. Building Extensible Development Frameworks. By Mark Ramsay. [221]

   Interesting case study. I wish Mr. Ramsay had had the time to write more & in more detail.

8. Application Responsiveness. By Joe Duffy. [70]

9. Illusions of Safety. By Pete Becker. [26]

   This was my favorite article in the 2006 October Dobb's. Enjoyable read & informative.

10. Failure analysis. By Ed Nisley. [202]

11. Beck's Maps, Rex Barks, and Grokking the Squonk. By Michael Swaine. [392]

10.1.1 Bush changes his language

President Bush ``changes his language'', so the news stories say.

Does this mean Bush will pronounce ``nuclear'' correctly? Is this a time of rejoicing?

Nope. Bush will stop saying ``stay the course'' with respect to Iraq. Oh goody.

Why the change? Because the Whitehouse doesn't want people to believe that Bush is inflexible with respect to plans for Iraq.

Translation: We won't be staying the course, so we are going to stop saying ``stay the course'' & start repeating something else (maybe ``be flexible'') to prepare the minds of voters to remove our soldiers from Iraq.

1. ``Bush drops 'staying the course' in Iraq''. By Jim Rutenberg. [234]

2. ``Bush: `We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’''. [286]

3. ``Bush drops phrase stay the course''. At Seattle Times. [280]

4. ``US cannot stay course in Iraq''. At BBC News. [366]

5. ``US says Iraq must improve policy''. At BBC News. [373]

6. ``Review Iraq strategy, says Hague''. At BBC News. [341]

10.2 Thursday, 2006 October 26

GOD! How I fucking HATE Word.
No, it's beyond hate. It's contempt.
And hate.
Wish I could hurt it.
If I ever go postal, you'll know I was editing a
Word doc that day.