Static-o, Dumb and Dumber

I just managed to play around with the binding flags and managed to get around a problem that was forcing Amber's hosting model to emit code on the fly (or so I thought) I must have been tired or sleepy or both the times I tried to work around the problem in late November. Moral: do not attempt to write code while moving across the Atlantic...

Amber's hosting model may emit code for optimization purposes if required.

I have been blogging on & off last couple of months and slow with the beta. The sort of problems that take a lot of energy and one does not feel like talking about them often.

And I ran into Dumb weeks ago...

Dumb is this fellow from one of the net groups that takes a militant-not-too-particularly-open-or-smart attitude about issues. He chases you all-the-way from the forum to your personal address to disagree in-your-face.

This time the issue was XML. Somebody asked about how to solve a problem. I posted that XML could help them. I had used XML in similar situations with great success.

But Dumb thought that XML was a "just toy" which did not delivered on its promises.

I thought that was funny to hear from somebody that uses the web so often and intensely (html is after all xml). I politely replied that Eclipse, .Net, and w-s use XML so it should be more than "just a toy".

Wrong answer!! Dumb chased me for days off the forum with all sorts of senseless arguments. But the funny thing was: He was using a pseudonim. So I was being chased by Dumb and Dumber!! I had to run faster!!!

It is summer. And while the english and north-europeans invade the rest of Spain looking for sun and sand, a lot of spanish people flock to Galicia to cool off and enjoy the wild green coast.

But it is also the time of "wild fires". Just last weekend there were 26 fires, 85% of them were intentional. And the main ones were around cities or areas with resort potential.

It doesn't take a rocket scientists to figure out that most of these fires would benefit the people who can't develop their real estate projects because of the strict regulations around forests.

Galicia needs to create wealth, and employment.

The demographics are inverted: young, economically active people are still leaving (my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, and myself migrated, more than 100 years of migrating) just retirees or people near retirement stay.

But brick-and-mortar is not a long term solution. It does not create high-paying jobs which bring about bigger tax receipts. Destroying the nature that brings tourists and money does not seem smart either.

If I were one of the thousands and thousands of good people who came from all over to help Galicians deal with the "Prestige" spill, I would be thinking: why? is this people stupid?