It isn’t there

I can probably count the number of times I’ve meant to hit the ‘=’ key and actually hit the ‘=’ on the first try on a single hand. This really sucks in my line of work since variable assignment and the subtraction operand are not equivalent. Neither is an equality test the same as a decrement operand.

So the ol’ backspace key gets quite a workout at work is what I’m saying.

Lamentation

Editors do make a difference. The trade-off for getting all of our news instantly delivered to us by a peer-to-peer network is that we have to be our own editors.

Not everyone is aware of this or willing to take on that responsibility. I think we’re where we’re at as a society because of that.