2004 – the Questions

Here are the questions to which these were the answers:

  • Why did my wife cause our Scandinavian vacation to be cancelled?
  • How did my mother’s surgeon describe the tumour on her colon?
  • How did my daughter announce that she was expecting her first child?
  • What eyesore did we finally get rid of from the basement this December?
  • What was my visit to Seattle at Easter notable for?
  • What was “The Project”?
  • What was the paradox in distributed computing that had me scratching my head all year?
  • What was the best new music of 2004?
  • What changed my life in 2004?
  • How am I spending my Christmas?
  • What’s my answer to Jim Waldo’s challenge: “Is there a notion of object which is independent of the language in which one is programming?”
  • What was the greatest fun I had with my blog all year?