guy steele and richard gabriel: 50 in 50 (if you wanna feel the difference between radio broadcast and podcast, there it is: a conference speak is a multimedia event)

Heh, but what is programming, and what role do programming languages play in that process? We have learned a lot over the last five decades ... fortran, pascal, one and zero, and funky syntax ...

kathy sierra's talk also at oopsla and later in berlin (at least i know now what i can expect), yet there is more: the mythical man month author frederick brooks and john mccarthy: on elephant2000. also featuring pattie maes ... need to listen to

if you can't stay on a place for longer than a day and are forced to use a plane, a train and a bus/a bus a train and a plane. even using your feet doesn't help to slow down, if you got through that circumstance for a while.

it's a marathon world anyhow, so why should i run an extra mile?

anyhow, it was fun in between, yet more than a normal day would bring. somehow i feel i have lost my brain on the road. somewhere. let it come home ...

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sunday: a visit to the scene of crime