Essays by Vernon R.J. Schmid

• A Few Memories of Mariola Drozdowska (1961-2022), also known as Mariola Walencik. (wersja Tłumacza Google w języku polskim.)  In lieu of a posted obituary....
• About a craving for lemon chicken on New Year's Eve
• What I found in Toronto during a random walk
• "An Open Letter About New Millennias and Date Fields": Everyone "fixing" the Year-2000 problem is providing only a short-term solution.
• "Anti-Chain Letter": Here is my attempt at stopping chain letters and other junk mail.
• "The Boilerplates are Boiling Over": In our desires toward automated communication, is there a balance of efficiency and effectiveness?
• "Debugging: The Quantum Approach": The more powerful quantum mechanics becomes, the more we should consider taking a quantum approach to debugging.
• "Disaster Prevention: A Personal Plea": Please consider others before you decline things intended for your long-term wellbeing.
• "A Flaring Time": Are we becoming too dependent on information technology?
• "Our Work Can Never be Done!": Given the physics of our universe, every problem you fix destroys the universe just a little bit more....
• "The Problem with Unique Identifiers": Can there really be such a thing as a unique identifier?
• "North Pole Systems Team Heads South": What would happen in a systems project at the North Pole?....

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Created: 1996-08-13. Last Updated: 2022-04-24.