Metaphorical Web

Archive for May, 2009

I have a confession to make. I’ve never had a formal class in C++ (though I’ve written quite a few). At no point did I ever get a professor spend several days trying to make me understand the significance of *,**,*void, &, ., -> or all those other rather strange glyphs that make reading C++ much like trying to understand the Chicago Manual of Style with 95% of the words removed.

A few days ago, Bank of America announced that they were raising ATM fees to non-customers to $3 in about 70% of their ATMs. No doubt this is well within their rights, but because of its unique position, for BofA to raise their fees basically gives carte blanche to most banks to raise theirs an equal amount (or more).

In a recent interview with Rohit Khare, Director of CommerceNet Labs, Jon Udell may have been responsible for introducing a new meme into the noosphere that will be as important in its time as AJAX was in 2004.