BASIC

Posted in: Blogging, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 07 February, 2010

For any computer programmers and even a large number of almost computer programmers we all know that BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instructional Code.   And while my focus is not on BASIC itself today, let me ad that for a long time I used Advanced BASIC (a seemingly oxymoron in itself) at the office back in my days at IBM and Lexmark – which used basica for the command line launch of the compile and link.  To this day, after typing b-a-s-i-c-a-<space>-something else a few hundred thousand times, in regular typing it almost occurs automagically and I can type “… it was a basic thought.” and I will get “…it was a basica thought.“  All that aside, I thought a primer on some commonly used abbreviations and acronyms was in order.

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Lazy Me

Posted in: Frustrations, Life | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 07 February, 2010

I really hate to break this to the world, but I have just been lazy.  Really as for blogging I suppose it goes back to November when I did the month full of posting once a day.  Did that sour me and burn me out?  I do not really think so.  I really dislike making a posting about all the reasons why I have not blogged, as I am sure it is not really that interesting of a read, but I am feeling compelled for my own sake all the same.  It is my blog after all so bear with me, after all it is 6:00ish in the AM on Sunday morning and I have been awake since 4:30ish at least.