Jinn of Quality and Risk

Jinn?

Reportedly an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtain of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. Grants wishes.

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict

Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — good genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany

Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly language, Pascal, C/C++, etc.

Jobs: factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, language lawyer, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, consultant, director of technology, solutions architect, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer

Projects

Write a book, quickly. Read, more. Sleep, less. Travel in Europe and America, v.soon. Find a job, again.

Links

Monday, February 18, 2002

Professor Hillman, a US researcher, has genetically-modified the mouth-dwelling bacterium Streptococcus mutans to produce a strain that does not create lactic acid ó the agent of tooth decay. A single treatment could confer lifetime protection from tooth decay. Human trials are expected to start by the end of this year. Hillman claims the altered bacterium is genetically safe and stable. "I've spent 25 years working on this project."

Scripting News: "Urban folk are often surprised, when they look closely, at how beautiful the environment is [in Silicon Valley], if you get off the valley floor and venture into the hills. If you live here for a while, it gets into your blood. [...] If you want schooling in the art of technology entrepreneurship, there's no better place in the world [...] This place is to software what Memphis is to the blues."

CSS for (somewhat techy) newbies:

"HTML is a structural markup language, not a visual markup language. Keep repeating that to yourself as you learn CSS, because otherwise nothing will make any sense." CSS does not guarantee accessibility, but it sure helps.

12 things no one told you about having a weblog

A List Apart: To Hell With Bad Browsers ó "If this site is readable, but looks as plain as an Amish coat, your browser does not support web standards. Fortunately, you can easily upgrade to one that does. Before you start shrieking, perhaps you'll hear us out..."

Charles F. Kettering. "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

Victor Hugo. "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

BBC News | How memories are formed: "The different ways the brain works when it stores memories have been caught on camera" — what are the processes at work for a project team, an office, and a global company to keep and share knowledge?

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