What if civil engineers build bridges the way developers write codes?

Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson has hit out at an industry in which "most software people are not trained to think in terms of safety, security and reliability." Instead, they are wedded to a culture of "patch, patch, patch," at a cost to businesses of $59 billion, she said.

"What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?" she asked. "What would happen is that you would get the blue bridge of death appearing on your highway in the morning."

She was speaking in the WWW2006 Conference in Edinburg, Scotland. She also thought that software developers will never build a plane.

See the whole news article here.

Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the future (from TechEBlog)

Check this out!

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-gadgets-of-the-future

Who wouldn't want a transparent toaster? Or a foldable DVD player (see picture above)?

Witness

As usual, I try not to give out anything in the title.

It was a Saturday. I took Jesse out for breakfast / lunch at around 1130. I parked the car near the restaurant we wanted to go and proceeded to walk there.

Traffic was light with Monday being Labour Day. I think a lot of people went back to home town.

I saw one motorcycle making a U-turn abrubtly not too far from me. On instinct, I put myself in front of Jesse. The motorcyclist dashed past the man buying newspaper in front of a newspaper stand and the next thing we saw was coins scattered everywhere on the road.

The bike didn't stop and disappeared quickly. The victim was stunned for a moment and ran to his car and gave chase.

Yes, that was a snatching we witnessed. It was a lazy Saturday noon. And it happened so close to my house (closer to my office.)

I thanked God for his protection. But I was also worried about what the world is becoming.

You be careful out there. You cannot be too careful.

L.O.O.N.G. - that's me?

Stop being lazy

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
~ Jules Renard