“I have the theory that news is now driven not by editors who know anything,” the comedian and commentator Bill Maher recently observed. “I think it’s driven by people who are” slacking off at work and “surfing the Internet.” He added, “It’s like a country run by ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos.’ ”

NYTimes: Texts Without Context http://s.nyt.com/u/ag1

“What all those years of CORBA taught me, BTW, is that RPC, for a number of reasons, is generally A Really Bad Idea.” — Steve Vinoski, RPC is Bad

I’m still not sure I want to learn Erlang.