... and you are spot on!  The thing is that what you are seeing is the effect of human psychology.  We tend to hold to our beliefs and traditions rather...

That is why us C of C people are so misunderstood.  They don't know where to put us - so they put us in this little room full of servers.

Steve...

Right you are.  Mostly.  I tend to write about ethics in softeware.  A definition that I was given is that "Ethics is good people trying to do well."  I got...

As to absolutes: Are we talking religion here?  THAT will start a whole bunch of arguments.

It's not easy being a DBA/Developer/Theologion

I would agree in that employers are looking for people with "recent experience".  Then too these are the same people that post job openings that say "eight years experience in...

Women in IT?  So soon have we forgotten.  Late great Admiral Grace M. Hopper comes to mind.  Memeber of the original Codasyl, pivotal in the design of COBOL, responsible for...

I'm going to cheat here on two fronts:

First, as far as CD's I'd have to take the ones where the artist are personally known to me.  Since John Obetz has...

Kevin, you sigend off by saying "We do some crazy stuff when we over simplify...".  So true.

One of the points that I get across in one of my classes is...

I rant a lot about disaster preparedness.  Mostly because I've had so many customers have actual disasters.  With so many years of working with dental practices I've been involed in some good...

Sam and William have it right.  Lot of us are spoiled by tools that have rigid structures and won't let you get away with much.

Another example was Embeded VB.  All...

Mike is right about things in the US.  Whatever I write at work belongs to my employer.  I'm careful not to expose trade secrets or violate the privacy of my...

I could not agree with you more, Colin.  Forums (like this one) and newsgroups have been of great benefit to me over the years.  I have a few more years...

"There's my 2 cents.... I'm Canadian, so does that make mine less valuable?"

Not if you keep your Loonies and Twonies straight.

I used to work with a programmer who was blind.  This was at a government agency.  His assignment: Programming the Optical Character Recognition unit.

Go figure.

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