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If you find yourself on Mac OS X having problems getting SSL working for Emacs under Mac OS X, you might try installing GnuTLS and telling emacs to use that instead. Why would you need this? In my case I was just trying to get Wanderlust (the best email client for emacs in my opinion) [...] The recent iTunes 9.1 update from Apple came with a bug that breaks compatibility with the Dansguardian web content filter and results in an Can’t Connect to the iTunes Store error message from iTunes. What is happening is that iTunes requests a URL with a dot after the hostname: http://ax.init.itunes.apple.com./ And dansguardian rejects it [...] Imagine my surprise when I decided to try out an competing feed reader only to discover a number of my subscriptions had been broken for a long time, and Google Reader never bothered to alert me. [...] In Steve Yegge’s Singleton Considered Stupid I found a friend to confirm my now near hatred for the so called singleton design pattern. I found myself callously using singleton to allocate an instance, and then never speaking to singleton or the instance again. [...] RSS contains the following information: Links to the most recent articles on the site Titles, descriptions, and other details of the articles and the website The good news is that you never have to edit or save an RSS file, that is the job of the website, they keep their RSS file updated with the list of the latest articles. [...] I’ve seen great assembly language, bad Java, scintillating Visual Basic, poor Python, ludicrous lisp, crisp Hypertalk, and even some very good Javascript. Lisp and C++ users regularly look down on programmers using almost any other programming language because the barrier of entry to Lisp and C++ is high. [...] To me hockey players are the ultimate love of the game group: “Growing up we always played baseball, football and basketball. The best hockey players play in the IIHF World Championship every year, even during an era when the US Olympic baskball team can’t even attract players who actually are interested in playing. [...] As usual Orson Scott Card says something better than I could ever hope in his World Watch column Why I Miss Karol Wojtyla: John Paul II, more than any other Pope, united, in feeling if not in fact, Christians who take the divine Redeemer seriously. [...] Even the most fundamental truths about software development are easy to forget, like that software development is rarely easy, and shouldn’t be. Management uses phrases like “keeping you hand dirty”, but I still think in terms of being a “real software developer” so I can help make better software. [...] Part of it reads: I hope the next big thing is the growth of professionalism and craftsmanship, and the realization that these are the attributes, not documented process or raw manpower, that will make our industry productive, accurate, and respected. [...] 
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