This isn’t the first time we’ve seen programmers having a difficult time gasping the intricacies of negative numbers. But you’d really think that someone able to program (am I giving too much credit here?), would have a little more sophistication than to distinguish positive and negative numbers with the “little line thing” in prefixing the number.
Why I Love Australia
In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: “I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.” For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker’s demand for an apology with something other than “If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally.”
iTunes Users – Beware of BIOS Updates
Be careful if you update (flash) your computer’s BIOS and you use iTunes – as you may end up resetting iTunes and require a re-authorization of all of your music!
Information Superhighway
Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net…
Bigger Bunnies
The buns make their annual trip to the vet – and they are getting BIG!