Moving to WordPress

Recently, I’ve seen two people move to WordPress and so decided to try it.  For some reason, I had some problems getting the activation email but now that I have an account, have to say I’m liking it.  The interface feels cleaner than Blogger’s.  It also doesn’t have to re-publish, which was kind of annoying.  I really like this theme Hemmingway except that it chops off the front-page stories and strips links from them too.  So, maybe not esp. functional but its really stylish.  Wish I could change more in its options though but I guess will have to wait till WordPress.com gets more customizable.

The Urge to Generalize

So I’m sitting through this talk on Friday by Laurie Williams – it was pretty interesting stuff – good in making a case for Extreme Programming. Someone mentioned in the talk how software developers like to generalize – they don’t solve the problem they’re given – they start right away at how to solve the general case. And in doing that, they don’t get done with the specific problem at hand. Ah, so true. Working on a compiler for Oberon, thats exactly my problem. I can’t help myself from thinking about creating a compiler construction kit – ala Yacc/lex, and so many others. I sort of have to supress the urge.