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Abstraction Considered Harmful

Several times now, I have tried to write this post. Each time I get myself all worked up into a lather, and end up confusing myself.

Zed wrote it for me. Go read it.

It turns out, that just like all the other dopes that he talks about, I had been conflating the ideas of abstraction and indirection. Abstraction is generally good whenever it actually shows up. Indirection, however, can be overused. And when it is, nobody wins. Except maybe the Java programmers who are getting paid by the line.

Anyhow, "Indirection, just say no."

Sarah Palin for Veep.

So, there's been a bunch of other people posting stuff about Sara Palin. The little I've managed to gather so far is that she's the governor of Alaska, she has not that much experience, she is fairly conservative (not "neo-", oddly) and she's something of a hottie.

Someone even made a nifty little website about her.

One of the snarky losers on reddit called her a "female Dan Quayle", which is kind of amusing, I am forced to admit.

I'm hoping that the real reason is just a bit more prosaic: John McCain is a dirty-minded old man.

Maybe he's worth voting for after all.

Ha, I had not forgotten!

By now, I suspect that both of my loyal readers had assumed that I had abandoned this blog.

Well, that is just not true.

I think that the problem was that I was trying to have high standards for my posts. Standards so high that I could not meet them. So, now I have a solution.

No, I will not be taking a writing class. I will not be spending more time on the posts. I will, in fact just ignore standards and post any old crappy thing that occurs to me.

Aren't you lucky?

From the "I thought he was dead by now" department:

I just read a really motivating interview with Johnny Rotten. If you don't know who that is, don't bother clicking the link.

Wow, now I'm linking to YouTube

But you have to admit that's cool.

Safari on Windows again

So, I find that I keep using it, even though it crashes periodically and leaks memory faster than anything I've ever seen. (Well, maybe anything that wasn't designed expressly to test memory leaking.) The fonts just look so very much better, that I keep gravitating right back to it.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html

But then, I used to use Opera, where I could easily crank up the size of stuff until the fonts were not rendering with only one-pixel-thick lines. 150% usually does it. Hm. I think the real punch line here is that websites all seem to make the font too small. Does anyone out there know why they do this?

Posting links to images is just so much less typing.

Yep, I'm lazy that way.

I think I'll wait for the iPhone Shuffle

The thing I dislike most about Safari on Windows

...is that it looks so much like Safari on OS X that when I go to minimize it, my mouse automatically heads over to the top left corner. A regular windows app puts a little menu on the useless icon that is parked at the top left corner, but since this is all smooth and shiny, there is nothing there. I guess I could back up a bit and click on the 'Window' menu, to get a minimize action, but somehow I always take the time to go all the way over to the '_' button in the top right corner.

So frustrating this is!