I saw the trailer for “Taxi” and liked it a lot. So I decided to rent the DVD.
Directed by: Tim Story
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Cast: Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito, Gisele Bundchen, Ana Cristina De Oliveira, Ingrid Vandebosch, Magali Amadei, Ann-Margret, Christian Kane, Boris McGiver, Adrian Martinez, Joe Lisi, Bryna Weiss, GQ
IMDB raintg: 4.3
My rating: 3.0 [rate 3.0]
Here are some parenting, and health and medicine related bookmarks. These all were found in the process of studing nuclear scans and their affect on the baby’s health.
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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, but they are very few and they are only an exception that supports the rule.
While in said discussion, I was trying to come up with a good analogy from a non-IT area for a programmer who can’t touchtype. I know of two ways to come up with a good analogy.
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I got fined today. I would normally accept the guilt, but today it wasn’t fair.
There is an excellent article in Cyprus Mail by Barry Faulkner. Barry explains why thinking that speed driving kills by itself is wrong. He says all the same things I was telling for years now. The only difference is that he is way more an experienced driver than I am. He was a law enforcement officer for 11 years and trainer for traffic police officers for 16 years.
The article also mentions a RoADS website which promotes safe and defensive driving on Cyprus roads. It mentions regular meetings and courses – something that I have been passively looking for for some time now.
Finally!