larry borsato

My latest article on the proliferation of software languages is up at The Industry Standard: I’ve been writing software for more than thirty years – I started very young, really – and I’ve learned several languages, and had to write the same components over with over with each one. An ever-expanding universe of those languages [...]

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My wife had a car accident the other day. The insurance company’s claims people called today to tell her that they were writing the car off. My wife’s doctor has told her to take at least two weeks off. She works with kids in a day care and she just isn’t up to looking after [...]

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After my wife’s accident I went around the car picking up things that had been thrown from the car. When I went to get here sunglasses I noticed broken pieces of her Nokia cell phone. The phone had obviously travelled quite a distance; I found parts scattered about 50 feet apart. I gathered up all [...]

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On this past Wednesday, my wife was in a car accident. An idiot in a Mercedes E550, on his BlackBerry at the time, went right through a red light and hit my wife. Her 2001 Mazda Tribute rolled a few times, coming to rest down the road on its roof. Fortunately a couple who lived [...]

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The CTV headline: Canadians want tough action on climate: poll It’s pretty much the same at The Star.This is based on a Canadian Press article with a slightly different title: Canadians want firm action on environment, despite pricey gasoline, says poll And that is based on a Canadian Press-Harris-Decima poll that asked the following two [...]

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I wanted to book a flight to use up some of my Air Canada miles so I decided to take my wife to New York. I selected the flight and redeemed the miles – no problem until I saw this: That’s right. $299.68 in taxes and surcharges for my "free" flight. Then again, it is [...]

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