Buch (Substantiv): …

Eine deutsche Übersetzung meines letzten Blog-Posts gibt es auf
Buch (Substantiv): Kleines Monster Lebewesen, das sich von menschlicher Zeit ernährt

Don’t be scared

Found yesterday via WordPress’ Freshly Pressed:

3. Back up your work. [...]

10. Don’t be scared. So many people have a guttural fear of technology—a fear of doing something wrong and messing up the whole computer or phone in the process. The truth is that it’s pretty hard to do anything that would permanently damage a computer or phone. Don’t be afraid to play around with things, make mistakes, and then figure out how to fix them. That’s how you learn. [...]

Check out and follow all Pam’s “Top 10 Things I’ve Learned from Living with a Nerd”!

Twitter, here I come!

After all, I got sufficiently curious about Twitter. So I will try it out. I have signed up and will post small things such as links to pictures and videos on Twitter instead of this blog. That way, I’ll also be forced to produce proper blog posts, with text and all. And thanks to this lovely twitter widget on the right you’ll see all my recent posts on twitter as well.

Update 2011-05-12: The twitter widget has moved to the left and might move again with another change of theme. In either case, you can find my twitter feed at www.twitter.com/almutei.

xkcd: Good Code

Somehow this feels familiar:

xkcd: Good Code

Although, the debugging loop is missing:
Does it work yet? > Yes! > Hold on, with these other parameters … Argh!
> Try to find the bug in the bit of code you wrote 6 months ago. > Does it work yet? …

Video: Richard Feynman on inertia

Feynman tells how his father explained him inertia, when he was a child. Like the Blackawton bees, another example that children can ask, think and experiment scientifically.

(via Laughing in Purgatory)

If you, like me, can’t recall immediately who Feynman was: There is some back ground reading for you on Wikipedia.