2005.02.25
There is no certainty; there is only adventure. Even stars explode.
Advice of the Moment
Peter Langston presents Ten Tips from the Programming Pros back when he was a programmer for Lucasfilm's game group in the 1980s--they came up with some great games like Ballblazer and Rescue on Fractalus, and a lot of the advice is still useful today, and even for non-game programmers.