mike watkins dot ca : April 29 2007 Archives

April 29 2007

M 4.3, Queen Charlotte Islands

M 4.3, Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada region (via USGS Earthquake Center)

Is your child’s school seismically safe?

Pop quiz: how many schools in Vancouver need seismic upgrades. Answer? Sadly, almost all of them. More than 90 of Vancouver’s 109 schools need seismic safety upgrades, many urgently so, and a significant number of those schools should in fact be demolished and rebuilt. See Families for School Seismic Safety for more information.

What programming language are you?

Noted on Grig Gheorghiu’s blog (via Planet Python):

You are Smalltalk. You like to treat everyone the same way, but this lack of individuality makes everyone feel like objects.
Which Programming Language are You?