Entries for archive: 2010-10

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Enjoying Kiva

Just thought I’d post a short entry saying how much I am enjoying microloaning on Kiva.

Chris told me about Kiva a couple of years ago and I have seen Brenda and Callum and Bruce (all in Wgtn) on Kiva too. (My profile.)

By the way, if you want to join up then give me a shout and I’ll invite you (I’ll need your email address). You can just go and sign up yourself, but at the moment if I get 5 invitees and they make a successful loan each, then I’ll get an extra $25 to be able to loan out :)

Am up to 15 loans now (Kiva Avg = 6.4) and it seems that every month I get some money back, put a little more in and then make another loan or two.

  • Update1: forgot to mention that I’m a part of the KivaKiwis and Koha teams
  • Update2: sent out one invite to a friend.
  • Update3: to get the $25 I need the 5 invitees to make at least one loan each before the end of October

Labels: kiva

Inserted: 2010-10-18 02:28 (1 year, 4 months ago)

What Programs Are

I’m on a lot of mailing lists, some of which I read religiously, others I dip into when the need arises and others still I just read the topics that look interesting. The NodeJS is one such list in that I just read the thread whose subjects stand out to me.

And luckily for me I clicked a fairly mundane thread this morning but then read what I thought was a fantastic description of programs and therefore the kind of emotions you get when programming. Written by Isaac Schlueter and reproduced here:

  • Some programs are community centers, and you want to entice people to come inside.
  • Some programs are factories, and you want to make sure the workers don’t hurt themselves.
  • Some programs are shops, and you want people to visit, but only a few go in the back.
  • And then some programs are art, and while you might hope that some people find them beautiful or perhaps even useful, and contributions may be accepted and feedback always welcome, the real purpose is just to hang it in your house and let it bring you joy.

I like it. Thanks Isaac.

Labels: programming, code, nodejs

Inserted: 2010-10-14 20:58 (1 year, 4 months ago)