Just read this in an engadget article: "Oh, sure -- gas is bound to hit $4 a gallon before 2020" This made me laugh. Loud. In the Netherlands today, fuel price for regular unleaded is €1.54 per litre. That is €5.96 per gallon. According to an online exchange site, that is $7.28. Per gallon. It's not 2020 yet. Welcome to the real world. LOL!
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Continue reading...50 years of COBOL The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has a new section of their website dedicated to documenting COBOL's history. An exhibit will open at the museum this spring." Yay. Recognition for COBOL.
Continue reading...W00T! Hilda's 3rd, The Challenge, is now up on Smashwords.
Continue reading...Yes. Kill the initiative. The CPNB (the society for promoting Dutch books) always brings out the "book week gift" each year. Here in the Netherlands we have a "book week", specially promoting books and reading, and each person who buys a book then gets a small book for free. The "book week gift". People who buy an ebook get nothing. Now a man decided to bring out the alternative ebook week gift in this week.
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