February 2009 – Cox Crow

Newlines

Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by Will Cox

What do the text utilities on AIX have against following the manual and manipulating newlines properly? Is it just that AIX is from IBM, and IBM software is hal...

communication

Not Enough Time

Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by Will Cox

We’ve been very busy with work over the past month, preparing for a release this past weekend, and so parts of my normal routine have slipped away, such a...

General

Incentives to Comment

Posted on Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 by Will Cox

Isn’t a shame that the only people with any incentive to comment are trolls or spammers?

politics

Preacherman

Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 by Will Cox

Was watching a clip on The NewsHour of President Obama’s gathering in Florida today, and was struck by how like an evangelist he was. It doesn’t com...

politics

Tone

Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 by Will Cox

I recognized the tone of President Obama’s voice at the beginning of the press conference last night. Katie Couric called it “stern.” ThatR...

General

What Makes Them So Special?

Posted on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 by Will Cox

Why is it that banks can create money out of thin air but I can’t?

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