It's impossible to make amends: he's dead.

As a UK citizen, I have flown out of British airports on several occasions in he last year or two. I have never been given a full body scan.

So it's actually Skype's fault. iOS issues low memory warnings before it kills apps. Well written apps respond to that.

Maybe the programmers would put more effort into making FireFox more responsive. Actually, sometimes I wish OS X would do that to Safari. I'm seeing far too many beach balls at the moment.

NullPointerException and ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException are both equally as bad as seg faults. They both indicate severe programming bugs and it doesn't mean they are not serious just because the program can catch them and attempt to carry on.

There's an iPad app called Notes Plus that lets you hand write notes (it works best with a stylus) and then will do hand writing recognition. I use it to take notes in all my meetings.

That's funny, I've used Objective-C quite a lot and my perception is that compile time errors are caught at compile time. Not only that, the Clang static analyser will catch lots of run time errors at compile time too.

There's nothing wrong with the carrot and stick metaphor. In the metaphor, the reward is represented by the carrot, the punishment is represented by the stick and the person is represented by the (implied) donkey, that likes eating carrots and dislikes being beaten with a stick. It has nothing to do with the carrot on a stick metaphor.

Woosh!

One genre of literature then. That's not really Earth shattering.

No.

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