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Do you want to get lucky with a great haircut, or impress that special friend with one and get a discount to boot?

My long time friend has opened another ZUCCi salon, this time in South Melbourne, and they are offering an opening special discount. All you have to do is visit the web site, print out the form and head on down for the best experience you will ever get while getting your hair done.

Seriously, I have never been disappointed or known anyone that went who was. I also remember getting lucky after shouting my wife to a ZUCCi experience.

Great minds talk about ideas

Normal minds talk about events

Poor minds talk about people

source: unknown

Soon I hope to start a new personal project to build some simple and highly effective services that can be consumed by other systems or people on a subscription-for-support basis. There will also be a free-no-support offering as well. I call this project “open-saas-ame” and you will eventually find it at www.opensaasame.com and www.opensaasame.org

If you want to be part of this project and contribute to the list of services offered then please send me an email or comment here.

The types of services we will offer are things like a “rating and review” service, where you can create, read, update or delete ratings and reviews of information. We provide the mechanics and you provide the look-n-feel. Simple stuff based on standards.

After a long wait a new version of Execute Query is finally available from underworldlabs.org. If you work with databases and SQL queries then this tool is a must. I find it more useful than similar tools like dbVisualizer and squirrelSQL, plus it is free and open source.

A friend asked to borrow some books on Smalltalk and I went to the shelf to get them and found this …

Daisy, the naughty pug, had taken a like to Smalltalk, which is understandable, since it is a simple and marvellous language and environment. However, her method of consuming the information is not one I hope she continues.

Below is a picture of Daisy (top), resting after a belly of Smalltalk information. I asked her if she ate the book and she just twisted her head in a “not me” motion. Gretel her sister is much better behaved, but if she were to eat books, I think she would be more of a Lisp girl.

http://cubo.cc/

There isn’t a lot I can say, other than, check it out!

A reader sent me this link to an example of Lisp (emacs) doing behavior driven development.

(context "A list with three items"
	 (tag list example)
	 (lexical-let ((list (list "a" "b" "c")))

	   (specify "should contain the first item"
		    (expect (first list) equal "a"))

No special byte code generating libraries, no special new version of Lisp, just plain right out of the box, Lisp !

Is there nothing Lisp can’t do ?

Thanks Eddy.