Chipping the web: November 22nd
November 23rd, 2008 6:00:10 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
- the_codist(): I Am A Better Programmer Than You
"Better" implies that there is a linear scale of programmer goodness. IMHO, programming involves a myriad of skills and traits, any one of which may have a multi-valued determination of quality that differs from beholder to beholder.
Thanks, Arjan.
Tags: programming quality comparison - My divisibility test rules revised
For all those times you need to know if a number is divisible by 43, Stu now has an even easier test.
Tags: mathematics division stusavory - Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest
Thanks, Assaf.
Tags: gaymarriage sql graphtheory marriage gender - 4sysops – Resize a Virtual Disk with VMware Converter
Excellent! You can download the VMWare Converter utility here.
Tags: vmware resize sysadmin converter cloning virtualization - snopes.com: Petition to Ban Religious Broadcasting
This hoax landed in my Inbox again this morning, sent by a well-meaning but gullible individual. Will people never learn to doubt what they so desperately want to believe? All you gotta do is run it by snopes, folks! Our liberties are being threatened in enough ways in the real world, without having to make stuff up.
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The gay marriage database article is hilarious! And just to complicate things further :-
The Family name is not necessarily the surname. In Iceland for example the given name of generation N becomes the family name of generation N+1.
They use the term ‘Forename’. Wrong! Given names do not necessarily come first.
There are people with only one name, there is a famous lady IT researcher for example with only one name. I believe she is a south sea islander. And I’ve forgotten her name
‘Marriage’ should take a religion and/or a legal jurisdiction ( both a function of time) as a variable. Divorce ditto.
‘Date’ may be a function of religion and/or jurisdiction.
etc. etc.
All good points. People and their customs are a set of many messy problem domains.
LOL. Sorry. I’m just noticing how attentive the sponsor ads are and how they picked up on the “gay marriage” text. I am still amazed at how they pick up on things in a blog post. Yeah, I should be over it soon.
I’ve always thought it’s just a little conflict of interest that Google search leads people to blog posts where Adsense ads are displayed. They claim that their search is impartially looking for the best match in content, but the temptation to search for their own ads must be amazing. Couldn’t really blame them if they did, but of course they’d need to mix in enough other content that it wasn’t blatantly obvious.