Software engineers have the best jobs in America, according to a survey released today. “The job of software engineer topped the list based on strong growth prospects, average pay of $80,500 and potential for creativity, the survey showed.” Yahoo News
“A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de St-Expurey, from folklore.org
The only time I have seen US CS majors gain immediate value is when they go abroad. There are plenty of companies in China, India, HK, Canada, Australia that would love to get their hands on top CS majors from the US. (slashdot comment)
I went through six pairs of socks yesterday because it was raining. Every time I stepped outside, my socks got wet, and every time I was indoors with wet socks, I changed them. I need to get some proper rain shoes.
You can’t see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications– which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week. Fascinating article about The Submarine.
WordPress was incorrectly “correcting” my HTML in my recent Digg this post. What I had to do to correct this is go to Options -> Writing-> uncheck WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically. I wonder if this fixes the embedding Flash problem as well or not.