Every mail client I use allows multiple entries in the TO field. Is the CC field merely a social convention now, telling someone “just FYI”, or is there a valid reason to keep using it? BCC certainly has its uses, but I can’t think of a valid reason to CC someone versus just using TO.
UPDATE – a quick search show some programmatic uses for CC, parsing names and doing something different with them. But beyond that, why use it?
I’m betting my daughter will be more excited about science from reading Mythbusters than anything I can possible teach. I can recall three teachers in my middle/high school years who got me excited about learning – I hope she has at least one like that.
What they said: http://www.marco.org/355605805.
Instapaper has changed how I read anything online. I feel I give reading my focus and concentration again, and I enjoy it more now.
Last post here was slightly over 2 months ago. Before that, a spate of posts around 3 months previous, and before that, almost 5 months went by. So why even bother with a blog if it’s not going to be updated? Good question. Solution: write more. I have a very specific memory of reading a story about how to judge your achievements. The gist was that you have to be honest and judge against the original goal, not the goal that evolved over time. I haven’t been able to find the original story, but the idea that being brutally honest is the only way to judge appeals to me.
With that in mind, here are my 2010 goals:
There’s my line in the sand. We’ll see how it goes.
Guess she’s not really a baby if she’s 1 now. She’s taken to climbing in boxes – diaper holder, plastic bins, etc. Then it’s very important that she empty them out.