http://localhost:1313/tags/rant/ Recent content in Rant on UberMongoose Hugo en-us Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:13:26 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/world-war-and-economic-unions/ Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:13:26 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/world-war-and-economic-unions/ <p><img src="http://localhost:1313/images/greece-crisis.jpg" alt=""></p> <p>It’s interesting that when the European project kicked off it was against the backdrop of the end of the second World War. Europe had seen two world wars within a generation with much resultant suffering and destruction. There must have been an urgency therefore to stop a third from happening on the continent by creating a pan national entity that binds many nations together.</p> <p>Perhaps the thought was that if one nation desires to start a campaign of aggression against another – if the cost of the aggression would hit home very quickly because of mutual economic dependence then the desire for such an aggression would quickly fizzle out in the home nation.</p> http://localhost:1313/post/sociable-programming/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:42:43 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/sociable-programming/ <p>Programmers are not known to be social creatures. It&rsquo;s an unfortunate reputation really, considering that programmers spend most of their lives writing their thoughts to each other - they should be right up there in the social landscape with Paris Hilton and Lady Gaga. The problem of course is that programmers never recognise the social aspect of their work. They think they write code for computers. Nothing could be further from the truth.</p>