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"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
— Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

"I like deadlines," cartoonist Scott Adams once said. "I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"There is nothing like that feeling of spending days and days banging your head against a wall trying to solve a programming problem then suddenly finding that one tiny obscure and seemingly unrelated piece of the puzzle that unlocks the solution. Oh yeah!"

- Chris Maunder, CodeProject Newsletter 28 Jan 2002

"Management at eSnipe, which is me, is also feeling the pain of the 2002 bear market. So rather than pout about it, I bought some stuff on eBay that I really didn’t need, but made me feel better."

- Tom Campbell, president of eSnipe

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

  7:19:17 AM  Friday Web Zen: Walking in a Winter Wonder Zen. Despite any incidental innuendo, all links are relatively G-rated. Enjoy. 1. Warm Your Pussy; 2. Happy Tree Friends; 3. Snowcraft; 4. Snowrush; 5. Snowball; 6. Tobbogan Jump; 7. You've Got (pee) Mail!; 8. Christmas Consumerism

  7:16:13 AM  Web Zen: I know. It's only rock-n-roll.. Rock 'n' roll zen: (1) 100 albums (2) thrift store finds (3) vinyl museum (4) daily song (5) 78rpm (6) the tarot (7) publicity photos (8) karaoke (9) elvis (10) glam rock (11) roadies Link Discuss (Thanks, Frank!)

  7:14:09 AM  Flash MX based UML Modelling Tool.
Grant Skinner has just launched the beta of one of the sweetest RIAs that I've seen. GModeler is a programming tool for developers working with ECMA-Script and deriviative languages such as ActionScript and JavaScript. It's a UML modelling tool built entirely in Flash and supports importing XML exchange formats for UML. It also does a beautiful job generating HTML documentation and XML content for integration into the Flash MX dev environment directly. It's beautiful, useful, and also a great example of Grant's other pioneering work creating an operating-system style UI shell for Flash applications. [Jeremy Allaire's Radio]

  6:52:27 AM  Resume Tips For Jobs [Slashdot] SAGEWire reports that with the economy speeding up, more and more people are freshening up their resumés. They've printed an article by Tom Limoncelli, co-author of TPoSaNA, that offers specific advice for geeks writing resumes. 'Course, I'm not sure how much I believe the economy speeding up - but still good information.,