Google apparently had a party this past Tuesday. The party invited people who study and attempt to use their knowledge of Google’s algorithm to boost rankings of their site on Google’s search engine results pages. An article at CNN.com brings up the party as well as search marketing and the value of being listed within […]
I remember when printer ribbon was 1/10th the price of the printer, and the decision to purchase more ribbon was simple. Today, I face printer ink prices that are 15/16th the price of new model printers that include printer ink. Purchasing a whole new printer is an obvious option to purchasing and replacing printer ink, […]
In Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective, Dijkstra states: It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. It has been three years since his death, and it is obvious that I have not […]
While driving on my way back home at the end of the day, I thought about the things that were very exciting to learn about during my early computing years. The notion of a function pointer was one of those things. I was very familiar with functions and variables. I was also familiar with the […]
I’ve been following the conflict between Google and Microsoft over the employment of Kai-Fu Lee . It seems that Microsoft is having a difficult time retaining their employees. Microsoft would rather litigate and mar their company image, and at the same time, enhance Google’s image as an employer that is willing to take risks when […]