Tonight is the night where I post all the links that have been backlogged. Lots of links. Have fun boys and girls.

Eric Albert points to some debugging tips by John Chang, and adds his own list of things.

Somewhere there's a GDB For MacBugs users, too. Search developer.apple.com [Eric's Weblog]

Chis Hanson has some great points that you should consider when you're hiring Mac software developers. [Chris Hanson]

Cory Doctorow's latest book has been published in online form - as well as hardcopy.

Get Them Here

I'm probably going to put those on audio format on WHiMP and listen to them on my trips this week. w00t.

[Boing Boing]

Oh! '50s and '60s ad art at The Imaginary World [Boing Boing]

I somewhat agree with Ned - I don't like how software engineering is taught. Of course, I'm very much unqualified to talk about it, since I didn't go through a traditional software engineering/computer science program. [Ned Batchelder]

MacSlash talks about O'Reilly's Safari online bookshelf. It gets 2 thumbs up from me. [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]

Because we all need to know a few things about Cthulhu. [kuro5hin.org]

I've posted this before, but you might want to consider a stuffed, plushy Cthulhu. Cause hey, nothing says fearsome like plush.

People on slashdot don't believe the RIAA's amnesty program... probably with good reason. [Slashdot]

SD Timeson Xcode: “Apple is wooing developers in compelling ways as if it were trying to make up for the lost time.” [Ranchero]

The screenshots look fun, I must say. Fun for a programming environment, anyway.

Take a look at Ars Technica's Mac Browser Smackdown - maybe you'll find another browser. Or maybe not, I guess. [MacMegasite]

Linux Journal talks about where OpenOffice.org Writer works where Microsoft Word doesn't. [Linux Journal]

(Oh, I'm sorry, I don't have an item title. Now I do, I'm sorry.)

Have I mentioned before that I live in the sticks? An hour away from civilization of any kind? Consider it mentioned.

Great Goodness, I miss civilization.

There's a Wegman's 45 minutes away. (For those of you not local, Wegmans is a 24 hour grocery store chain centered mostly around western New York).

The local grocery store is pretty much a two-bit affair, and I wanted somethings I could only get at a decently sized store.

After locking my keys in my car (right in Wegman's parking lot, of course), and recovering them with the help from the local towing company, I went into the store to buy things - and I about fell over.

Ok, so I impress easily, this I know. It doesn't take a lot to keep me happy. Tonight I even found a great deal of simple pleasure in my bottle opener (previously I've been opening bottles with knifes - a dicey proposition).

But, it was all I could do to pick my jaw off the floor. The size of the thing, all the wishes at my fingertips, right there for the taking.

You see, when you're in civilization, things are available to you. Neat things - such as taco meat Ready To Microwave. Deli Meat in resealable plastic bags. Limes. Taco Salad shells.

I walked out of the store with a $76 grocery bill. (Normally I'll spent $20-$30 per week at the grocery store).

I also realized that I miss civilization. The Things To Do (I'd kill for a Starbucks around here), the masses of people, the way nobody stares at you when you try to go shopping at midnight, the low ratio of hicks to natives (impossibly high around here), and the availability of gyms.

I'd hunt rabid mammoths if it would mean a that decently equipped gym would magically appear out of the ether. The local university has one they make available to a slim number of the public, for extraordinary amounts of money - way more than I wanted to pay.

The sticks are great to live in (low crime, you know a lot of storekeepers, etc) if you Bring Your Own Entertainment. I don't have a significant other at this point in time, and I work by myself (so no co-workers) - making it fairly hard to find Human Interaction.

Wednesday I leave for a trip to Rochester, Syracuse, and New Jersey (with a trip to The City sprinkled in there somewhere). Maybe after I get a massive dose of civilization I'll feel differently. There's always a chance.

Or I could petition the mayor to instate Open Season on the hicks. Then driving games in the Walmart parking lot would commence.