I’ve been reading Ken Leebow’s Blogging about Incredible Blogs for some time now. Sometimes I agree to what he writes, sometimes I don’t. Today I don’t. Few days ago he wrote this post, in which he says: You really only need to read ten blogs. It’s the 80/20 Rule: You’ll get 80% of your information … Continue reading Choose 10 blogs. Or more.
There aren’t that many films about the world of information technologies, so the title of “Pirates of Silicon Valley” caught my attention. Directed by: Martyn Burke Genres: Drama Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, Joey Slotnick, John Di Maggio, Josh Hopkins, Gema Zamprogna, Bodhi Elfman, Allan Royal, J.G. Hertzler, Wayne Pére, Sheila Shaw, Gailard Sartain, … Continue reading Pirates of Silicon Valley
Today I engaged in yet another discussion about the need of touchtyping for programmers with few of my collegues. My position on this issue is ver well known – I think that touchtyping is a requirement for a good programmer. I accept, of course, that there are few good programmers out there who can’t touchtype, … Continue reading Touchtyping analogy
How is that possible? I watched a movie less than a year ago and all I can remember is that I watched it. And I haven’t blogged about it. And it is about the only movie about firefighters that I’ve seen in my life. And both Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta are in it, so … Continue reading Ladder 49
Lame title, I know, but I couldn’t think of a better one and now it’s too late. One of the things I like about living in Cyprus is that I can meet with people of different cultures. Cypriots, Greeks, British, Russians, Eastern Europeans, Indians, Phillipinos, Pakistanis, Chinese, Lebanese – these are just a subset of … Continue reading Diging into cultures