"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking" - Goethe

Squint Softly

I told my husband tonight, while listening to Jack Johnson, that if he squinted he could hear Bob Marley. Just realized there is no equivalent to squinting when you are talking about hearing . . . maybe someone should make up a word for it - maybe mutile?

One thing leads to another, first I found a link to Linkology (because I was looking for articles about blogs). I scanned the links and saw a name I know, Joel Spolsky.

I know his name because his user interface book (User Interface Design for Programmers) was so useful to me, at a time when I really needed advice. It was the perfect combination of technical and usability information, and it was so comforting and low-key in its approach, it gave me the confidence to go forward.

I was not surprised to find this quote, from his book The Best Software Writing 1 posted on his website:

From The Best Software Writing 1

The software development world desperately needs better writing. If I have to read another 2000 page book about some class library written by 16 separate people in broken ESL, I’m going to flip out. If I see another hardback book about object oriented models written with dense faux-academic pretentiousness, I’m not going to shelve it any more in the Fog Creek library: it’s going right in the recycle bin. If I have to read another spirited attack on Microsoft’s buggy code by an enthusiastic nine year old Trekkie on Slashdot, I might just poke my eyes out with a sharpened pencil. Stop it, stop it, stop it!