Newsweek reports Google's Ten Golden Rules. A marvellous advert for Google? But I am not swayed by the advertising. Let's pretend for a second that Google is not a public company and therefore not suffering a potential financial conflict of interest in following these rules. 1) Hire by committee. Well,…
One of my colleagues came into my office the other day, and said to me: If p is prime and greater than 3, prove that p² – 1 is divisible by 24. Interested readers might want to try this for themselves: it’s not particularly difficult. Of course I started in…
Mrs. Elbeno and I took the car down to the local place for a minor service yesterday. We spent a pleasant Saturday morning wandering around the cafes and shops downtown. It was too early to see a movie, so we stopped in at a coffee shop and had a cup…