Question 2 (5 credits)
Why, in an urban area, are you driving a car with four-wheel drive, killing the North Pole ice caps, that takes up almost the whole width of the street, so nobody can pass, including cyclists?
In your answer do not use the phrases “cool”, “awesome” and “because I can”.
I was just having a look at my referrer logs and found some referrers to an older article of mine, from 2004. Still amusing today 
XML is female. Of course she is. XML is beautiful, XML is sexy, everybody wants a piece of her, and everyone can have a piece of her. But XML is not to own, XML is all about sharing. Perfection is also one of XML’s properties. Perfection on a higher level. It’s not about verboseness, it’s not about efficiency, it’s about openness, sharing and most of all: love. You don’t need condoms if you’ve got XML-DOMs.
Are you a Mac user? The Street.com thinks you are arrogant.
I do use a Mac. I, however, don’t think I’m superior to everybody else.
I just am.
Spottt (yes, that’s three t’s) is a free banner advertising network. Those who were active building websites on the internet in the mid-nineties must be familiar with this concept. Especially when I say one (what we would now call wiki-) word: LinkExchange.
LinkExchange was, like Spottt, a banner exchange service. You upload your banner and put some HTML code on your own website that displays banners of other people on the network. Every banner display on your own website earned you a credit, every 2 credits earned you a banner display on another website on the network. A great way to advertise your website for free. A great business for the banner exchange service too, because every other ad displayed on the network was a paid one. Hence the 2:1 ratio. At the time there were dozens of such banner exchange networks, some with better ratio than the 2:1 that LinkExchange offered, but there was something about LinkExchange. It was classy. Classy in its own peculiar ugly way.
Class. At that time I felt a website wasn’t really a website without a huge 468×80 (or whatever the size was) banner on it. LinkExchange’s banners were a bit too small in fact. A big banner signaled that you were serious, that this website was not just a homepage made by some teenager — which I was — but a real website. A banner said: “Hey, we have a business plan!” Even though my websites did not get a lot of hits I signed up for all kinds of banner exchanges and paid banner ad networks. Of course I got around maybe 10 visitors a day back then, but hey that was like 300 a month, right!
Then Microsoft bought LinkExchange and the bubble burst.
Thankfully there is Spottt, to bring us back to the nineties, except with smaller banners and gayer colors.
2:32 p.m.: “Hon, when you get home tonight could you pick up some tomatoes in the store? We ran out.”
2:35 p.m.: “Something went wrong. I heard a beep sound coming from the bedroom, like 2 seconds after I sent my message.”
2:40 p.m.: “I think I might have aimed my phone wrong. I was pointed it towards the bedroom, thought it wouldn’t matter. How silly of me.”
2:44 p.m.: “Hon, where do we keep the map? Want to see which direction I should point to send the message to your work.”
2:48 p.m.: “I keep hearing those beep sounds from the bedroom. Maybe the messages are bouncing the walls back to the bedroom.”
2:55 p.m.: “Hon, which street is you work at again? 22nd street or 24th street?”
3:02 p.m.: “Test”
3:07 p.m.: “No, still doesn’t work.”
3:15 p.m.: “I give up. Again a beep from the bedroom. Phone is broken. You should return it tomorrow.”
I got some time for blogging again. Why? Because I’m doing some development of our WebDSL compiler again, or rather, debugging. And as compiling this thing takes like 2 minutes, I got more time to write. Great way of keeping posts short.
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Ok, the two minutes have passed.
