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Woohoo, an all new wine!  From Hampi! W00t! "Hampi?"  "What, I say, What is Hampi?" (obligatory age-inappropriate continuation deleted) Hampi is the historic capital of the Vijayanagara empire - its huge, spectacular, was around 60 square miles in size, at its peak had around half a million people, and most importantly, was the site of the first annual Paolini-Subramanya Experience India(!)  tour (12 people, the resplendent Lindsay, and a wheelchair). Great time, no end of Gratuitous History everywhere (people living in or next to 1400 year old temples, random stuff, blah, blah, blah). "Great" you say.  "Great, but what on earth does this have to do with Hampi?" I'm glad you asked.   We got back from the weeklong trip, and dying for a glass of wine (No!  Never!) i swing by a wine store and see am pushed aggresively towards a bottle of Kinvah Shiraz (more on this in the future).  Not Sulu.  Not Grover.  Not even ND Wine.  Kinvah. And - shock ...

As a discussion about comedy shows on TV grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Arrested Development approaches one

Thou shalt not switch from The Godfather unless a commercial cometh upon ye Addendum As shalt thou (not) for Godfather - II Postscript Godfather III?  Never seen it - is it any good?

Theres this guy I know - works for Merrill Lynch (or is that BoA now?  Whatever).  I'm really not quite sure what his group does, but it involves plenty of financial wackiness. So, this guy - Lets call him John Puddingface - has a pretty good year last year.  Mind you, by 'good year', I mean his group ended up making around 2%, whilst all around chaos unfolded, the dark wings of night cloaked the fallen, and Merrill Lynch ended up screwing the pooch and getting bought by BoA. John Puddingface makes a bonus of roughly (get this) $2M .  And hes *pissed*.  Righteously, royally, religiously *pissed*.  Its only half of what he was expecting, he has a family, hes got obligations, how is he going to pay his mortgage, blah, blah, blah. Interlude Let us say, for arguments sake, that John Puddingface is actually a brilliant financial analyst, and his group effectively made 40% (the market went down 38, he went up 2, etc.).  The question is, if a company is going in the toilet, should...

Rewrite after the third update Corollary For sure, yea and most definitely so after the third bugfix! The third time you update a piece of code with a new feature or new functionality, take a look at the module, and see whether it can be re-written better, differently, simpler, with more documentation, etc. Odds are that it can. Odds are that the time you take to do the rewrite will be more than paid off the next time you edit this code. Mind you, if you've been updating the code due to bug-fixes, there is something profoundly wrong with what you are doing, so take a long hard look at not just the module but everything else. Is there a logical/semantic issue here? Is the code being rushed into production? Are the requirements bad? Do you need help? (and so on, and so forth...)

In Buenos Aires, there exists Filo (975 San Martin)  where one can get Damn Fine Pizza, and much more importantly, the Alle Patate - A pizza with a topping of thinly (oh, *so* thinly) sliced potatoes and rosemary.  Shockingly good stuff.  One that The Nikki has been trying to replicate for a while.  The potatoes (raw.  but they are sliced translucently thin, and i suspect the few minutes that the pizza spends in the oven are sufficient to get 'em Just Right) maketh the pizza.  To make it truly bad for you, they bring you a little thingie of olive oil to pour on, over, under, and around the pizza, which doesn't help things at all.  Don't be put off by the touristy vibe - or the neighborhood - it is, and always has been, quiet possibly the best pizza I've had in the Americas.  Do note, however, that this is Roman style Pizza, i.e., thin crispy crust (that stays crispy for the entire duration, however infinitesimal that duration may be due t...

If you suspect that there is something wrong, but then proceed to convince yourself that everything is OK, then there actually *is* something wrong. Corollary Its probably *much* worse than Just Wrong. Corollary 2 If you think its somebody else's problem, its probably not, and it almost certainly is actually yours.   Hmmm, is that something burning? From the stove area? Where I was just making myself breakfast? Naah. Probably not.  I did char the bacon (mmm. bacony goodness) slightly. Probably just that. I should get up and go take a look.  Just play safe. But, but, but, I'm comfy, there is a particulary interesting commercial on TV, and my dog has her head on my feet. Besides, it probably really is the charred bacon. Yeah, thats it. But I don't usually char bacon. I'm pretty good at bacon (mmm. bacony goodness). Nah, theres a first time for everything. And this is my first date with the Char of Bacon. I guess i'll ignore the b...