Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. – Edward V. Berard Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code [...]

Wheneven you set your goals in life, in work, in your current project or just today, always aim to do something slightly impossible. Not completely impossible, just slightly. I guess the man in the image must have thought something similar when he woke up one morning. What a marvalous picture!

As of January 12, 2009 people from Western-Europe, Australia and Singapore who want to visit the United States of America need to apply for _travel authorization_, as part of a anti-terrorism program. Of course, this authorization can be applied for on-line at www.cbp.gov/esta. Unfortunately, the good people of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have [...]