Jinn of Quality and Risk

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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.
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Monday, April 22, 2002 [this day]

Software History

Grady Booch (of object-oriented analysis and design fame — as well as UML) is alive! He has recently sent a message entitled "Preserving classic software products" to about 500 prominent people in the computer industry.

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Adieu Thor Heyerdahl — see also the tribute and discussion at kuro5hin [this item]

How to Fight Terrorism

The Root Cause of Terrorism is Tyranny (editorial by Benjamin Netanyahu) — "Do not be fooled by the apologists of terror." People who value each human life, liberty and representative government do not applaud or support terrorists.

See also Netanyahu Speech Before the US Senate: "That today a Europe which sixty years ago refused to lift a finger to save millions of Jews has turned its collective back on the Jewish State is downright shameful." [this item]

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What is this?
A polymorphic publication on quality, risk, and other gems. A weblog, pushing the boundaries of knowledge sharing. An experiment created with an utterly distributed, informal, flexible, independent, and scalable tool — better, faster, cheaper, and smarter...