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I raise these stones... / Remember the lilac
Saw the lilac festival in Rochester in Highland Park. Perhaps the lilacs were a bit past their best, but they were still lovely, and other flowers and trees and blossoms were splendid. Some of the lilacs had tags describing not only their species but giving a person's name and dates and details like a memorial tablet, and this reminded me of the ( Read more... ) -
You cannot be serious
So, yes, I have seen the trailer to "Beowulf and Grendel". And, well, I think John McEnroe said it better than I could. Mispronouncing "Geats" as though it was "gits" with a long-ee sound could have been uninentionally amusing, I suppose, but... no. I think I'll hold out for the Neil Gaiman/Robert Zemeckis Beowulf, due out sometime next year. -
The Aegean and die Nordsee
A couple of Greek poets recently brought to my attention:
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) (more poems)
Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996 ( Read more... ) -
COC Götterdämmerung
Baugeið Óðinn
hygg ek at unnit hafi
hvat skal hans tryggðum trúa?
Suttung svikinn
hann lét sumbli frá
ok grœtta Gunnlöðu
Othinn, I think, has sworn
an oath on the sacred ring --
who shall trust in his troth?
he had Suttungr cheated
of his mead,
and made Gunnloth grieve.
- Hávamál, v. 110 ( Read more... ) -
More from The Spring Experience
Keith Donald spoke on how the Spring project deals with managing its own huge codebase and dependency complexities. In the future, they will be breaking the project up into separate dedicated projects (as spring-webflow is already separate, there will be spring-core, spring-aop, etc), with a separate project that contains common build targets (CVS ( Read more... ) -
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In The Pragmatic Programmer, Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas popularize the idea that what makes code decay quicker than anything is leaving broken windows (bad code, earlier wrong decisions, etc.) unfixed.
As evidence that artsy types can be even more protective of their purlieus, One Continuous Mistake presents another story:
In the early years of ( Read more... ) -
Songs of the Saxon Shore
Today I looked back for the first time in a long while at the old tale of Vortigern and Rowenna. And was fired by the old dismay because it's not just Vortigern and Rowenna, but Vortigern and Tegau and Ceredig (Tegau's father) and Hengest and Liudbert and Hreowynn (Rowenna) and Horsa and Hreda and Vortimer and Catigirn (and the other two sons who ( Read more... )