maybe it's the Mother Of All Rants? Well, maybe not - but he's got a very good point there (one that i totally share, not that anybody'd care about me): that unnecessary obscurity is a lousy design choice.
very much related: ESR's The Art of Unix Programming, which I used quite a lot when I was teaching - some of my students may even have gotten the point...
(I also like the nicely captured photo on this report...)
When my boss' father, john sinclair, mentioned that he could use some help with
building and installing a rain gauge with online data collection
on Fraser Island (for fido.org.au) I naturally
said 'sure'; my experiences with designing and building two remote wind stations for the CHGC were good,
and I find things like that interesting projects to tackle. The rest of this
article documents the good, the bad and the ugly sides of the exercise - if
you want just the goodies skip to the page bottom :-)
click here for the rest of the story...
