Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
I don’t watch Fox News, but somehow I doubt Bill O’Reilly will be covering this story:
Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.
I did search on the Fox News […]
I hate job listings that describe what the job might become in the future if the immediate project is successful. It seems inheritly dishonest to tempt people to apply for a possible good future job as a package deal with a current lower-paying, short-term job.
I’m not really looking for a work. I bitch and moan […]
The Washington Post is reporting that Attacks on Unpatched IE Flaw Escalate as, yet again, a new critical bug is exploited. This one is pretty nasty:
Reaz Chowdhury, a programmer for Oracle Corp. who works out of his home in Orlando, Fla. Chowdhury said he’s not sure which site he browsed in the past […]
Watch the video clip. Impeach! Impeach! Impeach!
In this story, note that two actors were detained for over an hour, and one was specifically asked if he planned to make any more “political films.”
Expect to see more and more of these types of events, then less and less. Once this practice becomes common, people will just keep quiet to avoid any […]
I wanted to use a more OO approach to error handling in perl instead of just plain old eval , so I did some looking around. I wanted it to be easy, so I looked at these modules (UPDATE: Exception::Class included here thanks to William Sutton):
Exception
Error
Exception::Class
I also found this article on perl exception handling: Object […]
