“Using tax money to provide goods and services does two things: it hides the true cost by shifting the burden of payment onto other people and it eliminates choice. Those are both bad, but for different reasons.”
Desktop Madness Vol. 69
From that ever-famous opera scene in Final Fantasy VI (or III, depending on who you ask) comes today’s Desktop Madness wallpaper picture.
The Landscapes of my Youth
I had an active imagination when I was younger – I dreamed up elaborate histories for the fictional worlds that inhabited the landscapes around my childhood home. This is sort of a “description” of the world I’d imagined around my home, but it’s also partly a story of a single day – or maybe a single year.
Communication and Programming
Programming is all about communicating – communicating with the computer, and with other people. So it follows that to be a good programmer, you need to be a good communicator, too.
What Happened to an “Open and Transparent” Government?
A government which is above the law is not a government – it is a tyranny.