Programming
During an attack of desolation related to the aforementioned topic, I struck upon this, and alleviated the pain from my ego a small, yet significant bit …
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
My takeaway from it is obvious considering it helped my sorry state … :)

February 7th, 2008 06:03
Nice article….now that I am back to India I can again sense the “it is just coding” contempt quite a lot around me ; given my particular attachment to the field…it is quite hurting ; men don’t write four volumes on the art of computer programming if it just takes 4 days to learn it. I think it is more accurate to say “Learn Java semantics in 4 days”…..