Vikings, I Could Quit You
It's mornings like this when I wonder whether it's even worth it. Why do I bother with this -- or any -- football team? Because clearly my beloved Vikings are going to squander the best shot they have had in a decade for a Super Bowl. At this point, they will be lucky not to end up playing a Wild Card game, when just a few weeks ago we were looking at cruising to 14 or 15 wins and a first-round bye.
How many times can I keep hitting myself with a 2x4?
How Not to Choose a Web Framework (And Django Sucks!)
A journalism professor friend of mine wanted to start teaching her students to program using a web framework, and quickly narrowed her options to the two obvious choices: Rails and Django. Faced with two fairly similar, can't-go-wrong options, she turned to her technical friends, and asked a simple question: Which should she choose?
Anyone who's spent any time at all in the company of nerds (present company included) knows what happened. For those who have not, let's put it this way: she might have gotten less vitriolic, less doctrinaire, less jingoistic responses had she asked about Middle East peace or global warming.
