If you want to get your kids learning C++ by the time they’re in the first grade, better start ’em young.
Parenting At Its Finest
It’s one thing if you’re stupid enough to risk your own life when a hurricane’s coming, but don’t get your little kid involved.
FEMA: A Legacy Of Waste
This is an incredible piece of investigative journalism that’s been well-packaged online. It documents how FEMA has just been wasting tax-payer’s dollars for years.
The paper has investigated how $9 million in FEMA tornado recovery money went to people in Miami-Dade County, even though the storm hit up to 37 miles away. More than $5 million in “free money” went to people in the Los Angeles area, even though wildfires burned up to 30 miles away. And $168.5 million went to people in Detroit to help recover from a storm that people have trouble even remembering.
It’s just scary to see how much money went to places with little or no damage.
Did I Miss The Memo?
Apparently so, as Rob at AboutItAll started blogging again last week. Guess I need to add him — again — back to my RSS reader (you’re keeping me on my toes, Rob, that’s for sure).
The only reason I knew? ORBlogs weekly e-mail had a mention of it in there.
Does Hallmark Make Cards For This?
It’s national Talk Like A Pirate Day, matey.
He’s Only Human
But since he’s the President of the United States, when he needs to go to the bathroom, a photographer is right there. Thanks Barn for the link.
Really Bad Ad Cliches
Sadly, in designing an ad recently, I used copy from a professional ad copywriter that included some of these. It bothered me, but the client hired this guy to do it, so what can you do?
Programmer Cheat Sheets
There are cheat sheets all over the Web for a variety of programming languages. The one great thing about this page is that it has over 30 of them all sorted and linked to in one place, saving me a ton of trouble.
Want To Be A Genius?
An interesting article on what makes a genius, and how you can become one yourself. I’ll probably never be a genius, however, as I don’t even have the time to read the article all the way to the end. Oh well. Mediocrity is fine by me.