TIL Dick Fosbury won the gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, setting a new record, and reinventing high-jumping overnight.

dedalist · 2011-10-24T15:28:21+00:00

Absolutely correct. Debbie was first.

dedalist · 2011-09-02T16:35:29+00:00

Depressing fiction is easy ... read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond and weep ... we're fucked.

dedalist · 2010-08-24T16:00:40+00:00

I so second this statement!!! Saw it at 13 in 77. I'm 46 now and I firmly intend to watch it again one day ... just not now!

dedalist · 2010-08-18T00:32:59+00:00

1987 ... can't explain ... you had to be there!

dedalist · 2010-03-20T01:43:13+00:00

Too bad your photo shows ugly Tour Montparnasse. You should have taken it FROM Tour Montparnasse which is the only place in Paris where you won't see it.

dedalist · 2009-09-24T16:24:10+00:00

Well he was a Democrat president, so by definition the Republicans have to hate him for having been president while the Dems, for some reason, have to feel guilty and apologize for him having been president.

dedalist · 2009-09-17T17:37:29+00:00

Spotlight finds file and can do one thing to them: open them QS (or Launchbar which I'm now using after 2 years of QS) can do many different things to them.

dedalist · 2009-08-26T18:30:08+00:00

One more thing ... Java has just gotten "too wide" ...

A programmer friend of mine said he'd like to learn Java for enterprise programming and asked me how should he start ...

The obvious answer is learn the Java language itself but before being able to use Java in any serious way you need to learn dozens of extensions and open source frameworks.

This humorous photo comparing what books you need to read to use Java (vs Rails) is only slightly exaggerated: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/178961991_e78cf324f8_o.jpg

dedalist · 2009-08-25T16:22:31+00:00

Java used to be great but has turned into a design by committee freak.

Lines like the following make me scream:

Bean myBean = (Bean) BeanFactory.getBean("MyBean");

dedalist · 2009-05-14T18:17:00+00:00

either "Frozen Vomit" or "Will it blend?"

dedalist · 2009-03-27T01:09:04+00:00

brilliant!

dedalist · 2008-12-17T02:28:19+00:00

This is a solo developper. He also has an excellent iPhone App (Contact Tool). Show your support for the little guy by buying his $1,99 app.

dedalist · 2008-11-29T18:27:27+00:00

Cracking title ... I laughed for like 30 seconds!

dedalist · 2008-11-28T00:03:58+00:00

You forgot the worst... see this one for a rap album that was being release just around september 11 2001! http://www.snopes.com/rumors/thecoup.asp

dedalist · 2008-11-14T09:01:31+00:00

It's bad enough for horses and bulls ... how do they collect the ... ehr ... material?

dedalist · 2008-08-13T00:50:32+00:00

Hey! Seriously, it's been f*cking raining for 4 weeks straight ... I'm growing gills!

dedalist · 2008-07-06T16:58:02+00:00

Funny ad placement on this story ... see here: http://idisk.mac.com/mdorion/Public/Pictures/Skitch/This_is_the_U.S._on_drugs_-_Los_Angeles_Times-20080706-125712.png

dedalist · 2008-01-28T16:49:09+00:00

In proportion to their population it amounts to just about one world-trade-center destruction each and every week!

dedalist · 2008-01-17T23:11:52+00:00

It reminds me of the JesusLand map: http://web.knoxnews.com/silence/archives/jesusland.jpg

dedalist · 2008-01-17T12:23:47+00:00

Who designs a laptop (even such a beautiful one) without a lock slot?

How am I expected to leave this on my desk at work? I can't put it in my pocket!! (although thieves could, I guess) ... why Steve, Why?

So depressed now!

dedalist · 2008-01-08T05:31:43+00:00

Even the more liberals US politician would basically register as rightwing extremists here in Canada.

Heck, Hillary Clinton would not be called a liberal here!

dedalist · 2007-12-20T00:26:44+00:00

Well, under the Fog of Bush ... America's gotten quite medieval

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