In a bid to avoid the inevitable moral hazard of privatizing Social Security the U.S. government will most likely turn the U.S. into a managed economy where corporate success will be more about pleasing Congress than succeeding in the market. My, but aren't I cheery? [6/20/2005 – The Christian Science Monitor had an interesting editorial … Posted in financial. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
When designing a protocol or programming language the inclusion of extensibility is essentially an act of humility. One is minimally admitting that one's design is not complete and more generally one is admitting that one's design is not perfect. By providing for extensibility one is enabling others to improve and in many cases fix one's … ∞
A few days ago I noticed some comment spam and wondered how it managed to get on my website without my e-mail notification system letting me know. Sure enough, it turns out that sometime last December my perl Mail::Sendmail hack stopped working. So I have missed a bunch of comments. I apologize to those folks … ∞