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Misreading headlines

Whale meet ends with peace agenda
What? A whale died because of a peace agenda?
Ohhh… A meeting about whaling ended, the conclusion being a peace agenda.
My misinterpretation would have been moot if I had stopped to consider the grammatical structure. Another headline misreader wasn’t so fortunate…

Lazing

I’m resting up. It happens. Expect the next post in {insert first odd prime number here} days.
Clues to this most unimaginable practice may be found here.

Seriously? I got in?

I wasn’t sure. I was nervous. I was also hungry. I pored over the email I typed out. Was it too brief? Should I take out some words? What am I talking about?
Request for inclusion in Alltop, specifically the Programming category.
I looked at the email request I had in front of me, and thought “I’m [...]

Podcast: Why programmers write stupid code

Need I tell you, again, how my first recording failed abysmally? Probably not. And here I am, doing another audio recording. Plus the fact that I got a new headset and I want to play with it.
To be honest, I learned a few things. I speak quite fast normally, and when my speech gets into [...]

The heat, the other and the pens

The heat was palpable in sunny Singapore for the past few days. Waves of scorching air rose off the asphalt. The bright yellow orb in the sky was indifferent to the mere humans living on the tiny island. With nary a cloud to shield the solar rays happily streaming down, nor an itinerant breeze to [...]

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