his'n'hers carbon sequestration

Here are our Christmas presents to each other.  They are books.  (There are other types of presents?)  The rule is: a book we want, but (probably) would not buy for ourselves.  This criterion is almost certainly impossible for the other to determine, so we suggest options to each other.

many people would rather fail than change

Evidence-based software engineering? Surely not!

Bits of Evidence from Greg Wilson

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before and after

We’ve now installed and configured the Christmas tree.

before and after the makeover

sequestering carbon, several books at a time XIV

The pre-Christmas arrivals:

vaccinate

I got most vaccines as a child.  I do remember getting chicken pox, though.  It wasn’t nice.

Growing Up Unvaccinated tells a story more people need to hear.

If you think your child’s immune system is strong enough to fight off vaccine-preventable diseases, then it’s strong enough to fight off the tiny amounts of dead or weakened pathogens present in any of the vaccines.

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tormenting students

I’ve just used the phrase “mentoring students” in a document.  The spell checker doesn’t recognise “mentoring”, and suggests “tormenting” instead.

Hmm.  Should I accept the suggestion?

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compiler shavings

Mike Hoye provides an interesting bit of computing history, plus an Open Source rant.

the reason we started using zero-indexed arrays was because it shaved a couple of processor cycles off of a program’s compilation time. Not execution time; compile time.

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