Today begins a new phase of my life. After a decade long bout of dithering about whether I was going to buy a house or not, I’ve finally signed over my life for 30 years to a mortgage company. I’ve watched the market go up, down, up down, and then spin around. I’ve watched friends buy and sell houses, and yet […]
Categories: personal
Tagged: financial, house, realestate
Many people have commented to me that I seem very “decisive” — which, come to think of it, is entirely too close to being the decider, so I’ll try not to be offended — but the illusion is quite thin if you know me well. Take, for example, the recent house purchase. From a distance, it appears as though I made a snap […]
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Tagged: decision, psychology, realestate
Two days ago, I took the plunge and made the formal decision to buy a house. I signed a contract on a new place committing to close before the end of March. I’m not sure if I’m numb, terrified, happy, sad, excited or all of the above.
Categories: personal
Tagged: finances, house, realestate
Within the software development community, the term refactoring is used pretty frequently. Martin Fowler defines it as: Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure. The question for me is, what happens if we apply some […]
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Tagged: refactoring
That’s it. After all the idiocy, incompetence, maliciousness and general suspicious behavior at Facebook, I’ve deleted my account. You too can delete yours. First, it’s important to understand there’s a difference between “suspending” your account and actually deleting it. The first will suddenly re-activate if you log back in, or do anything that might cause an […]
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