Notes
“Openness” is defined by the ease with which a customer can substitute one product for another.
A few gems of wisdom today from the morning news we wake up to:
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Tony Blair went to war but couldn’t have imagined it was going to be a nightmare.
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Some politician thinks No Child Left Behind is working because the curriculum kids have today is “much harder” than when he was a schoolchild.
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Rodney Clark, owner of an oyster poaching company, claims innocence because he “cannot control” the actions of other people just because he employs them.
NPR (or KUOW) by passed each of these along these as observations or sound bites without comment. Ira Glass is right about broadcast journalism.
The building metaphor has outlived its usefulness
Art challenges…design solves
Let’s accept, for a moment, the ridiculous post-9/11 restrictions on airport egress that imply I’m about an equivalent risk to civil security as an airline passenger as I would be driving a truck with 80,000 pounds of hazardous cargo.
Once they’ve effectively imprisoned me within the system, can’t they at least offer a fenced-in pen for some fresh air?
GodKillsAKittenEveryTimeYouUseMe: recommended static field type for storing injector references (if you must) in Guice.