Hovden Data Laboratory

I remember once seeing an image viewer program capable of displaying its images on screen without any frames, borders or menus. Thinking how nice it would look with some of my family members, I started my search. One such program, called Pictoscope, available from http://www.softplatz.net/Downloads/Graphics/Editors/Pictoscope.html . Using it is a pleasure, it has keys (keyboard shortcuts) for whatever you want it to do, and once you have displayed one or several pictures on your desktop, you can just close the main window with all the controls and nothing is displayed in the windows task bar. How hygienic. Excellent. Recommended!

We have written unit tests for half a decade now. These functional guards are patiently watching for any irregularities in functional behaviour during a project's life. They keep the castle in pristine order so everyone lived happily ever after. That is, until the day, the big bad wolverine shaped maintainers decided to change some walls. They kept doing this again and again. Over time, the castle did not at all look like the pristine castle it once was architected to be. Wolverine maintainers had more interest in just adding a new room than rebuilding the entire castle. Dark clouds and shadows now assembled outside the gates and not all guards were at their posts. Some of the guards had grown old and had ended their service long ago. With low guard morale and an uproar approaching, the King and Queen decided to abandon the castle and move into another one build on a platform far far away. So ends many an adventure, even today. What if some building regulations were given t...