Friday 5 August 2016

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party."

Presumably every (good) student of informatics has learned to know the above phrase as filler text or as exercise on handling multiple editors, fonts etc. just like Cicero's famous Lorem ipsum - nothing more than a typing drill described by Wikipedia.org here -> Filler Text.The real meaning goes back to the American Revolutionary Period, when Patrick Henry stirred the seeds of discord with his famous Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death speech to the Virginia Assembly in 1775. It is quoted her to explain my long break in writing about databases and programming. Far from Henry's fervent ...