A Lover of Delphic Wisdom
Posts of a General Nature
Look, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know anything about anti-trust law that I haven’t read online or see on TV or whatever. But I just read about six articles in the New York Times about Amazon, and all of them have the tone that Amazon is this close to a lawsuit from the Department…
If you haven’t heard of Bitcoin by now, then you should probably find out about it right now if you even remotely want to have any Geek-cred at all. Okay, anyway, I actually made a pretty nice chunk of money off of Bitcoin. A few years ago I took a modest chunk of bitcoin in…
A commenter on my last post asked about why I bought 100 ISBNs. That does seem like a lot, no? Well, the ISBN game is a bit of a racket. ISBN stands for “International Standard Book Number” — and it uniquely identifies a book world wide. It even identifies different forms of the same book. …
Donald Trump Heavily coupled code When people think that Delphi is dead Pineapple on Pizza Mean people Rap “Music” Not having enough battery Wires The New York Yankees Restaurants that don’t have free wireless C++ Waiting Hillary Clinton Kanye West Bad grammar Stop lights Lima Beans The Caps Lock key When Windows steals the focus…
Delphi The Delphi Community Clipmate (written in Delphi, by the way) Everything search tool NBA Basketball My Nexus 5x phone Visual Studio Code Notepad++ Taylor Swift Bruce Springsteen Cream Cheese Traveling Evernote Being married Being a Dad Twitter Lonesome Dove Casablanca Taking a nap on Sunday afternoon Working at Gateway Ticketing Netflix The Spring for…
My deal with Embarcadero has expired, so More Coding in Delphi is now available for sale in electronic form. That makes a total of four ways to buy my two books: You can buy More Coding in Delphi in paperback or electronic form You can still get Coding in Delphi in paperback or electronic form.…
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled…
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