TITLE: One of Those Weeks
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: March 30, 2007 12:06 PM
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I honestly feel like my best work is still ahead of me.  <BR/>
I'm just not sure I can catch up to it.
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I owe this gem, which pretty much sums up how I have felt all
week, to comedian
<!A HREF="http://drewhastings.com/">
   Drew Hastings</A>,
courtesy of the often bawdy but, to my tastes, always funny
<A HREF="http://www.bobandtom.com/">
   Bob and Tom Show</A>.
Hastings is nearly a decade older than I, but I think we all
have this sense sooner or later.  Let's hope it passes!

I owe you some computing content, so here is an
<A HREF="http://www.acm.org/membership/learnmore/FranAllenInterview.html">
   interview with Fran Allen</A>,
who recently
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2007-03.html#e2007-03-21T14_03_39.htm">
   received the 2006 Turing Award</A>.
She challenges us to recruit women more effectively ("Could
the problem be us?") and to help our programming languages and
compilers catch up with advances in supercomputing ("Only the
bold should apply!")
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