the occasional occurrence

I am doing a little “pleasure reading” on Erlang tonight. I thought this was an interesting thing to say about variables:

Variables can only be bound once! The value of a variable can never be changed once it has been set (bound).

Doesn’t that make them constants, and not variables?
cw

Here are a couple questions that Curtis (our 3-and-a-half year old) has asked me in the past 24 hours:
Dad, did God make microbes?
I think I stumbled through ok on this one. Something like:
Well Curtis, there are many good microbes, and even microbes that would be bad to get in our bodies have their place [...]

Sarah, on why she snatched Eli (our 19 mo. old) from me last night at 3am when he woke up crying:
It was my zombie-mom nurture mode.
I was happy to return to “zombie-dad sleeping mode”.
cw

So an article about user interfaces on Coding Horror prompted me to say a short piece about Ion*.
When doing serious work on the computer, I always find myself tiling my windows. Overlapping windows are so annoying. And tiling them in an organized manner is even more annoying.
From the article:
Manipulating windows is pure excise– [...]

We just got a new digital camera today. Our four year old Minolta DiMage S414 likes to say “Err” more than take photos, so it was high time to get a replacement. After looking around for a couple months, we settled on the Nikon Coolpix S10. We definitely wanted a smaller camera [...]