Ben Mulroney : "The first time I met Justin Trudeau was in Montreal,
when his father fell ill, and we sat around one night and talked about starting our own political party. We decided it would span the extreme left to the extreme right. As leaders, each of us would have a crown and a sceptre. We had it worked out so I'd run the country from Monday to Wednesday and he'd take over from Thursday to Sunday."
www.waxonwaxoff.org
"Wax::On Wax::Off is about teaching of computer programming though the metapors inspired by kung fu movies. This isn't as mad as it at first may seem...or actually it is, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful."
Mario A. Torres : Developing Scalable Distributed Applications
From the "know yer tools" department : Tim Bray on XML::Parser
"The fact that XML::Parser is so much slower than regexp,
when it's based on James Clark's blazingly-fast expat parser,
is silly and wrong."
Maybe it's just me, but I find it sort of telling
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is germane
| source : web1913 |
Germane \Ger*mane"\, a. [See {German} akin, nearly related.]
Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or
fitting; relevant.
The phrase would be more germane to the matter. --Shak.
[An amendment] must be germane. --Barclay
(Digest).
| source : wn |
germane
adj : having close kinship and appropriateness; "he asks questions
that are germane and central to the issue" [syn: {germane(p)},
{related}]