Today's yummy word

satisfice.

Python spotting

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6563. I just cannot help noticing these things :-)

Computers and mathematics

"The highly abstract quality of computers makes it easy to introduce mathematics into the study of their theory-and has led some to the erroneous conclusion that, as a computer science emerges, it will necessarily be a mathematical rather than an empirical science."
-- Herbert Simon, The Natural and Artifical Worlds

Amen.

File Save As ... XML

"XML is not - repeat NOT - a 'file format' in the sense that most people use the phrase 'file format'." -- File Save As ...XML