I Have A Mysterious Fifth Sense- August 20, 2004 A little fun for a Friday afternoon. The economy must be picking up -- I'm getting cold calls from recruiters again for the first time in about four years. Today was the second (and third!) this month. However, apparently some of them are just a wee bit disorganized. I just had the following conversations: Ring ring Me: Hi, this is Eric. Her: Hi, this is Barbara at XYZ Recruiters. How are you today Me: I am extremely well! How are you, Barbara This seemed to completely flummox Barbara....http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/08/20/i-have-a-mysterious-fifth-sense.aspx The Attribute Of Manliness- August 18, 2004 This is a technical, not a political, current-events, linguistic or academic blog. (You know of course that as soon as I say that, it's because I'm about to post something that is political, timely, linguistic and academic. Foreshadowing: your sign of a quality blog!) Despite all that, I was so struck by this passage I read last night that I felt I had to share it. We'll get back to error handling in VBScript or some such topic later this week. The writer is discussing semantics, specifically.http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/08/18/the-attribute-of-manliness.aspx Math is Everywhere- August 11, 2004 A number of coincidences led to this post -- first, I got an email from one of the Mikes, who encouraged me to digress more from strictly technical topics. Thus I was going through some old email looking for anything off-the-wall and I ran into this old rant about mathematics that I wrote a while back. Not five minutes after re-reading it, I saw Gretchen's recent post on how her high school math teacher always told her that algebra would come in handy, and sure enough, it did. Go, algebra! A.http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2004/08/11/math-is-everywhere.aspx |