Non-sequittal _______

I'm back, but I'm not

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:10:30 GMT

22 months after my original idea about moving my blog to my own host, I finally did it. So this probably is going to be my farewell post to Livejournal.

Software design

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:59:17 GMT

Just like any other places, there are both good and bad things about working here, where I'm at. The company has many great benefits, and other programs. One of them comes in the form of an employee requirement--each of us are supposed to take minimum of 40 hours of training in job related topics each year. Which is great. They really want us to improve on our skills and enhance ourselves. That enables us to do better job, helping the company more effectively.

What's the catch? I hardly see any training that I'm truly interested in. I've been a paid programmer for 6 years with this company, in this department, working with same people. To this date, I've taken zero hours of professional IT/IS classes. I've taken a whole bunch of soft skills - how to manage better meetings, project management, speech, presentations, conflict management, e-mail etiquette, etc, etc. The list goes on. Some of them are useful.

I'm very fed up with it, and I'm trying to deal with the management to agree that I can take a technical course. But there's a great many obstacles to do this. For one, most of the outside, professional courses have the prohibitive price tags. $600+ minimum. $1000+ is often. WTH? For a 3-day courses?! Give me a break. And one more thing - class locations. This is one bad thing about living in Kansas - there's nothing. Many of the courses are offered in either side of the coastal areas. Nothing in the middle.

I don't take no as an answer very easily on these things. I'm always on the search on things I can read to learn more. Internet is great. It has shit load of junks. But it has loads of useful information as well. The problem? No matter how much reading I do, and how much I learn from them, none of them count toward my 40-hour requirement. *sigh* I can't help it. Really, I don't do blog surfing for nothing. My daily blog surfing consists mostly of programming topics. Not even a single anime site, really. (That's saying quite a bit as a fansubber.)

Anyway.

In one of those quest for more self enrichment attempt, I was searching around the web on another topic that I thought would help me - user interface design. Joel on software is a very evil blog to me, in the same sense as how wikipedia is evil for many people - articles are inter-linked with each other, that you can spend hours reading different articles.

So, I've wasted 2 hours of my time this morning reading his blogs. I don't regret it. He has written many things that made me go "ah-ha!" Most of the things are so fundamental, that it's stupid. But stupidity really is his key note - it's better to assume that the software users are dumb. We shouldn't treat them like they're dumb personally. We always need to pay respect to them. But more dumb we assume they're when they use the software, it'll be simpler for everyone to use the software. Great concept. Actually, many people say the same thing, in different words. But still, it is a great reminder how to think like a clueless users, not like a smart programmer. (That's also one of my frustrations - we don't have dedicated software testers, unlike other programming shops, who can give us good feedbacks often, and quickly.)

So, I've learned a lot, which is.... frustrating. Like I said, none of this counts toward my training hours. I've learned so much for free. I don't want to waste 3 more days on this topic, telling me the same thing. I don't want to spend $1000 company budget to learn the fundamentals I already know. Not even $20 to buy the book this blog author has written on the topic.

Before I disappear for another 3 months, I want to take a slim chance, and make a request :
If anyone knows of an on-line college/university course I can take, let me know. I'd much rather take a 3-months or 1-semester class than 1-week seminar on any topic. I want the materials taught in it to stick with me for a long time, not just for 3 days after I leave the classroom. My topics of interest right now - effective web design, software development and software project management with some focus on how to use the tools to assist us, software development in team environment, graphic designs with some training in graphics software (photoshop, paint shop pro, etc), extensible and flexible software design (with some emphesis on object orientation and software frameworking topics), and advanced topics on RDBMS - how database works behind the scenes, query optimizations, etc.

I'm not too picky, am I?

Firefox 2.0 alpha 1

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:41:53 GMT

The next version of Firefox is making the public alpha debut, with a code name Bon Echo. How exciting.

But after seeing the page above, I'm a bit concerned. The professional developers are willing to release their flagship software without having all components in place? I'm worried that they're starting to rush their products out, rather than taking their time and make everything as perfect as possible. Grrr...

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:42:01 GMT

So soon after I ramble about something, another potential solution pops up - The Zend Framework. This looks interesting. Because of its simple design, it seems to have less dependency on libraries and stuff. And it should be fitting in more environment than other frameworks.

But.... eh, it's a bit too late. Right now, I'm using the combination of the Stupidly Simple MVC Framework and in-hous PHP based template system. I'm still struggling to set things up correctly. I dearly hope that this will be saving me time in the future, because it sure feels like tons and tons of time being wasted now. Bleh the learning curve.

Japanese on Linux

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:36:17 GMT

I knew it's been possible for years and years. But for some reason, I could NEVER figure out how to do this. Last night, I took another plunge at setting up the environment up so I can type Japanese on Linux again. This time, the tools used were Ubuntu running XFCE desktop (Xubuntu), anthy, and uim. I followed some instructions on various ubuntu wiki and forums, and... ta-da! It's good to go!

I took this linux laptop to Walmart this morning before work. While they were working on the oil change, I typed up my first Japanese blog entry on that laptop. It works like a charm. ;_; My 8+ year goal has been finally reached.

Blog move

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:47:30 GMT

[22:48] <Sylf> installing wordpress was so, so, so easy
[22:48] <Sylf> I'm thinking about moving my blog from LJ to my server
[22:48] <Serjei> yea, LJ sucks
[22:48] <Serjei> be leet
[22:48] <Serjei> and host your own
[22:48] <Serjei> hahaha

It's not that being leet sounds good. I've bee thinking about moving away from livejournal for quite a while. For over a year, actually.

So yeah, I'll be moving soon. This is actually the 2nd time this blog will be moving. It used to be on my own domain, using something I wrote really quickly. Then moved to LJ. Now I'm moving back to my own domain. I'll post more about that soon. Probably tomorrow.

Confused programmer

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 18:20:22 GMT

Beware - highly geek whining ahead. And it's rather unorganized.

As a programmer, I've hit a huge stumbling block. Actually, it's not something that happened at once. I've been feeling the pain for at least couple years, and I'm getting more and more fed up with the situation. And the worst part - I still haven't found a way out.

When I started using it in 1999, PHP was somewhat a new language on the web. It's a language that was made for the web. It did what I needed. It was very easy to learn, especially with my background in C, however rudimentary it was. I've built a site with it, and it worked. Not the best, but it worked. But ever since then, I've been stumbling on number of problems that these various "why PHP is bad" articles point out.

I think the worst problem I'm facing is that the apparent simplicity of the language is actually the cause of added complexity. I don't know for sure - I'm just guessing. I don't have the expertise in other languages like these bloggers. I must be missing something in the area of knowledge in software engineering, and the knowledge of the features that those languages offer.

The sites I manage here at work are getting bigger and bigger. The complexity adds on each time. At first, these sites were rather simple, just like some simple personal sites. I didn't have code manageability in mind when I started on these sites. Spaghetti codes are everywhere. We're managing the current sites fine, but I'm not sure how we'll manage if we have to do a total overhaul of these sites.

I have no intention of abandoning PHP just yet. Despite the weaknesses that PHP has, I still think it's possible to build a good software with somewhat clean codes with it. There are some major, successful projects built in PHP. Many popular blogging software like wordpress, drupal, b2evolution, etc are written in PHP. New wiki systems pop up quite regularly, many of them written in PHP. Large scales bulletin board systems too. Heck, I use b2evolution, PmWiki, and Simple Machines Forum, all driven by PHP. So I know it can do the job.

But on the sites that don't rely on these pre-built software, I'm really struggling. First and foremost, the separation of the logic and presentation is not there. I've been reading on that topic for quite sometime. I've heard about Smarty template engine. I've read rants about smarty. I've looked at some much smaller template system such as this one. But I've never implemented these. And I just left it alone.

Ever since I read this article on slashdot, and learning what this WASP thing is about, the whole issue of separation of logic and presentation came back to me. Actually, it's a bit more than that. It's the concept of MVC - Model, View, Control. To me, this thought pattern makes the perfect sense. It does separate the logic and presentation. Not only that, it separates the data access logic from the core business logic. And here it is - WASP - a framework written in PHP that handles the MVC. Perfect.

Or was it? NO. A big no. It assumes I have certain libraries and such that I don't have. It doesn't work well forme. And my search for a perfect MVC framework started. Symfony? No. PRADO? No. Cake PHP? This one looked the most promising of all systems I looked in to. I spent about two weeks trying to learn this system. But still, it just isn't flexible enough.

There is one problem when it comes to these systems written in PHP. Many of them assume that the hosting environment is Unix/Linux based, and is run with Apache web server, and MySQL is used as the database engine. My situation is completely different. I run my PHP site on Windows server, using IIS, and use an obscure database connected via ODBC, as well as IBM DB2. We connect to several others as well. Yes, multiple databases adds more complexity to the system.

Then I came across this series of article, Stupidly Easy MVC in PHP. It's not a pre-built frame work. It's a walk through on how you can build your own frame work in simple format. It takes inspiration from the same system that WASP and CakePHP did - Ruby on Rails. Great. I think this might work.

Right now, I'm in the middle of trying to figure this baby out. It still is quite a monster when I try to fit this monster spaghetti code in to this framework. I can no longer slap codes together as my instinct tells me to. I'm struggling hard to just rebuild one application using this simple framework. What I thought was somewhat simple when I coded it isn't simple at all.

I really lack the proper knowledge of software engineering. I wish I could get some experience in larger software shop, and learn how to work in an organized software project. I want to learn how to manage large scale software projects. I just don't know where to start. I feel like I'm trying to grab on to whatever piece of straw I can find.

I'm still alive!

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:41:02 GMT

That's what I've got to say for today. Really, you don't want to hear about 6 months worth of my monotonous life.

OK, let's spice up the post a bit.
100% corn socks - socks made out of corn. Yup. Instead of using cotton or wool or petrolium based fabric. And Kansas produces helluva lot of corn - most of it for cattles, but others for ethanol production too. Go Kansas agri-business! (Not that I have any part in any of that business.)

Firefox - as safe as condom

Fri, 13 May 2005 18:02:43 GMT

http://www.factorycity.net/sfx/always_use_protection.jpg

I knew this was going to happen. Firefox ain't perfect. What a shocker that is... NOT. But now all I hear anymore is about the security vulnerabilities found in Firefox. Oookie... Of course, if you don't practice safe ~~sex~~ safe computing, you'll always be vulnerable. Duh.

Anyway.

I want that condom. Such a geeky sex toy. <3

$30,000 cat

Wed, 11 May 2005 15:32:04 GMT

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=8443560&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews

No, I don't buy that. That's screwed up!

Painful memory

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:15:19 GMT

Dog bites

Since I was bitten by a dog 20 years ago (and I think I had much worse injury than this girl), I got very scared of dogs, then I gradually come to love them again. Properly behaved dogs are just very lovable. I couldn't possibly name anything I disliked about Maggie, a very sweet border collie. Of course, she has a very responsible owner - she's a fortunate dog. But sometimes, I wonder about some owners...

City of Wichita has no regulations on how many dogs you can have. Not that it's a bad thing, but I do wonder if people are wise enough to know their limit. Take this news item for example - that house had 6 grown-up dogs. That's a quite a few to handle for anyone. I know some people gets very attached to their pets. That's a good thing. But along with that must come responsibilities. It may be hard to let go of your puppies. But wouldn't it be worse if your dogs gets sent to the pound, as these dogs did?

I hope that this girl will overcome the fear against dogs. It might take time. But animals can bring lots of good to us.

Insecure info world

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:53:16 GMT

Another story linked from slash dot - 'Geek speak' confuses net users

I'm not too surprised about this finding, but the result is still depressing and scary. People tend to form some sort of community anywhere and everywhere they go, and some type of lingo starts to form. IT is very notorious about that. All kinds of new technologies are born everyday, both good and bad. Along with them, new lingoes pop up.

I hear it at my work place all the time too. Answer the customer questions using the terms that we have gotten accustomed to. We know exactly what we mean, because we face the technology everyday. To end user, that may not be the case. What might sounds like a common sense term is not common at all to the customer. It is difficult to provide help in the language that anyone and everyone can understand.

I also see it on AnimeSuki Forum too. People ask "I can't play the video I downloaded. What's wrong with it?" Someone else answers "It's your codec. Reinstall the codec." Most readers knows what that means, to some extent. What's a codec? That's a simple question. "How do I exactly go about this reinstalling?" That's a much harder question. And often, this more complicated part is omitted from the answer, just because that's something those people who give the answer do all the time. It's a common knowledge to them. But to the person who asked the question, this "how to" is what they really want to know... most of the time.

But hey, there are plenty of FAQs and README and manuals out there. So we say RTFM!

This week, so far

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:08:48 GMT

Several things have been going on around me this week.

First, on the fansub front.
Froth-Bite took a semi-break during the month of March - we made 4 releases during the entire month. Now, as of April 6th, we've already released more than double of that number already for this month, and more are on our way. The Leiji joint project has finally got their senses together, and started working on Space Symphony Maetel again. Finally released first 4 episodes again after taking 6 months break. Some of our own projects had some progress too. Then there is the new joint I'm doing with another group, Minor ja Nai. They've lost their translator for MAJOR. And I love that series. So it felt natural to step in and give them a helping hand. They didn't coordinate the release effort with us very well... They released it while I was still sleeping. But oh well. We'll live. Sounds like they will be ready with next MAJOR by this Sunday. I better pick my speed up on their project.

On to the music scene.
The leader of the jazz band I belong to has decided to make a career move. He has decided to move to Seattle. So someone had to take over his duties... I was chosen as one of those people. Even though it's Cessna Jazz Band, there are only 6 of us who actually work for Cessna. We are minorities. Oh well. Poor Carl is brand new to the group, and he picked up co-leadership as well.

And tonight is our first gig under the new management. There are many uncertainties. Will we really survive? We'll see.

On the different music front, I went to a first music concert in ages. Rajaton is a Finnish a cappella group. It's a somewhat jazzy, very contemporary, fun group. It was $15 well spent. I love finding all these small, unknown gems. They reminded me of The Real Group - another a cappella group from Scandinavia. I later discovered that I'm not alone having such opinion. They have their similarities, but also differences as well. The Real Group likes to do traditional jazz standards (It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, Come Sunday) to some pop hits (Drive my car)... Rajaton likes the pop covers (Ticket to ride) and their original tunes. It's fun to listen to all these Beatles tunes a cappella. Hehehe.

Ooops

Sat, 02 Apr 2005 04:18:25 GMT

I let kojih.com domain name expire... and left it expired for over a week. Ouch, that hurted when I realized it. But how wonderful is DNS caching... kojih.com continued to work until today. Yay, internet.

But I need to manage these things better. I host my mom's e-mail address on this domain... now she'll never have to switch her e-mail address when she switches her ISP. And it's free for her. And it's all made easy, because Mozilla Thunderbird is translated in to Japanese too. ....as long as I keep kojih.com up to current, that is!

Firefox is an insecure application

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:53:24 GMT

That's a surprise statement coming from me. Various people knows that I am a Firefox enthusiast. Then why am I making this statement?

It goes back to earlier this month, when we received a notice from the IT department.

You have been identified by IT Dept. as running a non-standard browser (firefox Mozilla) on one or more devices assigned to you. IT Dept. has been alerted to vulnerabilities with this application. I have not been able to locate any related requests security review for this application. Please let me know if you can remove this application by end of day. If not please document the business requirements, forward to me (by end of day) and cc: your project leader. IT Dept. will be instructed to implement the patch, and a security review will be performed. Any questions let me know. Thanks

Our response to that is that we need Firefox to keep our current level of productivity. Personally, I use Javascript Console, HTML Validator extension, and Web Developer extension on the daily basis. It's more than just a damn good web browser to me.

But still, it made me think of this whole issue, and I came up with my own conclusion.

In general, IT department likes to be in control. They control all the computer deployment, including all servers, desktop PC's, laptops... hardware and software. Microsoft lets the computer maintenance folks power to control the software deployment in centralized manner. Our PC's are tweaked so we can't manually modify the registry files. Nor can we use tools like TweakUI. (I think tweakUI is an excellent productivity tool, but we're out of luck.) And the "Security" setting section of MSIE Options panel is completely locked - they are in control, not us. So, when they need to deploy new software or security rules, they can do it in very organized manner.

Now, try to apply that on Firefox. That's a completely different story. Firefox lets you control the application. And there are some very well-known extensions and plug-ins to enhance its features. Of course, along comes the possibility of introduction of malwares. Without the proper tweaks made to the application, it's impossible to control these possibilities, short of enforcing the ban the use of Firefox.

Also, there's an issue of the aptness in Firefox issues by the support personnel. Are all security folks and PC support groups be able to provide the sound support for Firefox? What if problems occur during the use of Firefox? This question can also lead to the security problem. With inadequate support, more problems will come up faster than the solutions.

With all that said, I still support Firefox. Firefox may be insecure, but IE is even worse. The IT department just can't see this point.

Sure, IE lets them take control of the application settings, but there are still plenty of problems. Currently, our Windows XP doesn't have SP2 loaded - no pop-up protection. It scares me to go to the internet using IE anymore. I really believe the IT department will save more troubles and money in the long run by making the switch. The cost of training will be made up quickly by the lack of support they have to provide!

By the way, our IT department allowed us the use of Firefox. I guess our business requirement sounded good enough to them. Damn right!

P.S. If you think "That's why Opera is even better!" (yes, that's you, Ledgem), don't forget, same security concern of Firefox applies to Opera too.

anti-piracy at its max

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:50:52 GMT

First Swede Prosecuted For File Sharing

By itself, the news isn't too big. It's just another case of pirate being caught. But it's the method used that's questionable. An unconfirmed report (I read it on faireal.net, a Japanese site) says that APB, the anti-piracy bureau (Antipiratbyrån) was using an agent who acted a part in the file sharing community. 68000 titles of games and stuff!!! A thought of cyber-Jack Beuer came to my mind, but heh... this is just insane. Even Jack wouldn't go THAT far.

transparent putty

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:36:12 GMT

I have some strange fondness to transparent terminal windows on computers. (And with a few other objects as well, such as game dice, etc...) back in 1998-1999 or so, I was messing around with wterm on Linux/WindowMaker. (I first found eterm for Enlightenment, but that thing was too heavy for my slow computer.) For DOS prompt, I *could* use programs like eConsole... but I use more telnet/SSH than command prompt. I especially want a transparent SSH window.

What I just found out today, is there's a patch for my beloved SSH client, PuTTY. That's just slick. I might even start using this to do fansub works... Yup, I think I will.

300th fansub translation

Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:40:41 GMT

I just ran a quick update of fansub translation log this morning. I just noticed that I've hit 301st translation this weekend with the translation of Mahoraba episode 11. 300th was Mahoraba 10.

Series	episodes TL'ed	total count
Android Ana Maico 2010	1-24	24
Black Jack Special	1-4	4
Black Jack	1-2,4-17	16
Captain Tsubasa 2002	7-12	6
Chrno Crusade	1-15	15
Cinderella Boy	1-13	13
Final Approach	1-13	13
Galaxy Railways	1-12	12
Gear Senshi Dendoh	1-10	10
Godannar	1-26	26
Great Teacher Onizuka	37-39,43	4
Hajime no Ippo	8-34,36-76, Special, OVA	70
Hi no Tori	1-13	13
Kita-he - Diamond Dust Drops	1-5,7-8,12	8
Last Exile	3-26	24
Licensed by Royal	1	1
Lupin III Episode 0		1
Lupin III Operation Return the Treasure		1
Lupin III Stolen Lupin		1
Macross Zero	2-3,5	3
Mahoraba	1-11	11
Nanami-chan	1-12	12
Peacemaker Kurogane	19-21	3
Saint Seiya OVA	5-6	2
Space Symphony Maetel	1-8	8

And I've done this many in about 2 and 1/3 years? I need to get out of my house more. No wonder I'm still single.

Smoking ban

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:22:13 GMT

Kansas legislature is considering a total smoking ban in any public, enclosed space. Finally, it's about time.

When I visit Charleston, WV, one of the really nice thing is that all restaurants are smoke free. shiorichan has said numerous times that it's weird when the waiters ask "Smoking or non-smoking?" at restaurants in Kansas.

All restaurants have smoking and non-smoking sections, if the place allow any smoking in the building currently. But there are still many places where there are no wall or anything effective to separate the two areas, minimizing the effect of such separation. I'm sure you've experienced in the past too - you get seated in a non-smoking section which is still close enough to the smoking section, and you can clearly smell the smoke.

Finally, they're considering this smoke ban.

I do feel this proposal is a bit extreme. Even banning smoking in the bars? I'm not very sure how wise that choice is to the night life scene. This is where I feel the facility or business owner needs to make their own decisions about smoking policy, not the state... Not that it matters to me too much, but crippling the business economy too much wouldn't be a good idea.

Still, I can't wait for the day I don't have to worry about smoke in restaurants.

Argh! My ears!

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:26:01 GMT

I just discovered that my hearing is far worse than I imagined, especially in the high frequency range. My left ear can't hear much beyond 15KHz. My right ear gives up at around 14KHz! A healthy young ears are supposed to be capable of hearing up to 20KHz. Man, I've lost quite a bit already. I think I'm destined to lose all my teeth and my hearing.

Of course, it's not an official test. I just tested it using heartest.exe that someone made quickly.

Or maybe it's just a temporary thing from my music...

No free ice cream for me today

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:53:07 GMT

I just found out that Baskin Robbins is giving out free icecream to celebrate Yahoo's 10th birthday. What about me? The closest Baskin Robbins from here is 3 hours away. Oh, too bad...

Good luck, Steve Fossett

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:22:40 GMT

While I was waiting for another dental appointment, I read the news about Steve Fossett's challenge - first solo flight around the world, non-stop, without any refueling. At lunch today, I read the news about the fuel consumption being more than expected so far. I hope he can still pull this feat off.

The start and goal of this trip, Salina Municipal Airport, is just 90 minutes North of where I live. Along with BTK case, Kansas is making some big national news this week...

UPDATE : Yay! He landed as scheduled!

WTF is the shortest website address (or at least one of them)

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:00:58 GMT

w.tf - Yes, theoretically, it's one of the shortest internet addresses that can and does exist.

The other day, couple of us were talking about a possible top level domain (TLD) name, ".of". Such TLD can create some unique and fun URL's, just like people did with ".to" TLD. Unfortunately, there is no such TLD exists. ".tf" does - it's registered to the Southern French Territories. And w.tf is really an registered address, and a site exists (although not much there). what.tf is not registered yet. Anyone want to get that address?

Dentist visit

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:41:14 GMT

I know I haven't made a single entry in 2 months. I've actually been thinking about dropping LJ. I may go back to my own host to run the blog. I was looking around, doing a lot of thinking, etc to prepare for this migration. But I haven't done anything about it yet. It's going to take some time before that happens. So before I forget, I thought I'd say something funny.

I had 3 teeth fixed today - #6, #7, and #27. That's upper right cuspid, 1st bicuspid, and lower right bicuspid. (I had to look it up.) All within the close region of the mouth. And did they numb the area good. It's been 2 ½ hours since ,they applied it on me, and my lips are still numb on the right side. And my appointment got done 5 minutes after noon. It was difficult to eat. I spewed some Dr. Pepper on my clothes. I dropped some lettuce out of my mouse. I couldn't tell if I was chewing on a piece of chicken or a piece of my lip. Oy.

Anyway, that's all done. Now the next appointment is in 2 weeks. This time, I will finally start having my missing teeth filled with bridges. They've been missing for couple years now. I can smile again soon!

P.S.
trying to put some lip balms at this condition feels weird.

Who cares about privacy anymore?

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:59:44 GMT

Spyware on My Machine? So What? (found through slashdot)

This is a scary notion - people are giving in to the adware products willingly. They're just giving away their personal informations, online behaviors, and what not... Where did the notion of privacy gone anymore?

As an opensource lover, it's a pretty painful blow. People are very unaware of the free software that's really free, with no catches.

On top of that, it's scary that people are more willing to install these software on their work machines. Not only they don't care about the privacy, they don't care about the company confidentiality either? Hrm!

I've once used this quote in my blog:

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Now this quote is taking a completely new meaning. Whoa...