Did you think I was talking about that world? Well, I wasn't. I meant that the world of Gmail has stopped expanding. At least it seems that way because practically all of my "geeky" friends have been invited already.
The past few weeks, I've seen more people begging to get rid of their invites than asking to get one. What is it with geeks and counters? Is this the same phenomena that sometimes makes people try to reach 100% code coverage by any means necessary?
By the way, do you have an "@gmail.com" already? ;)
I just bumped into this page listing 100 most often misspelled words in English.
To my dissatisfaction, acquaintance wasn't one of them. I always get that one wrong.
Darn.
I've been using the 1.0 preview release of Mozilla FireFox for a couple of days now and I have to say that the new search bar rocks!
Dion has a point. I have also wondered many times why Sun hasn't provided such a simple enhancement to such an essential tool as java? (although having said that, I have to admit that I can't remember when I've compiled more than a single Java source file using the command-line tools...)
Obviously I'm talking about J2SE 5.0 a.k.a. Tiger.
What I'm wondering is, how many people have actually used Tiger "in anger" before its release? I know Cedric has, but he doesn't count...
PS. Beware of a loooooong download...
Sean Gilbertson writes in the XP Yahoo! group:
Think about the following Zen koan:
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."
One interpretation of this koan is that, if you think you have in your mind a concrete ideal of "perfection," you should kill that notion, because there is no such thing as perfection.
The most important thing you can do is try, fail, and understand why you failed. No expert can give you anything that will substitute for that experience; and too much education and reliance leads to resentment. And incidentally, failing a lot will tell you how much you love software.
Starting from the most important, life is so much easier if you like cheese. I also learned a new buzzword.
Ok. I've spent the day in a very odd mood. On the other hand, I've felt crushed, the next minute I'm feeling like it's all good, and then I realize I should probably hurt myself before 6am tomorrow morning (a go-live date for something I'm quite sure won't pan out as smoothly as it's supposed to). It's not the first time someone I know leaves this world too early but for some reason, I'm feeling this one more strongly than before. Maybe it's because Phil was such a ray of light. Always happy and eager to help others.
It's time to move on.
Phil was truly a breath of fresh air in every day.
