TOPW show
Toronto Photo Walks* is holding its first group exhibition at Studio 561 on March 17th to 31st. Details are on the TOPWshow.ca website; there’s even a poster for you to print and display 
The opening party will be on Saturday March 17th, 5pm onwards – I’m sure we can arrange for green beer for those who are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
(*TOPW is the photo-walking group that I started in 2009; I’m one of the 21 photographers showing work at this exhibition.)
Another cartoon
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- http://www.flickr.com/photos/pah57/
- http://torontophotowalks.ca/
- http://twitter.com/paul_henman
- and http://henman.ca/ of course!
YAGNI
I was explaining “YAGNI” (You Aren’t Gonna Need It) to someone recently and I wanted to send them an XKCD cartoon which I think sums it up, but I couldn’t find it. Well, just so I have it handy next time, here’s the cartoon:
In case it’s not clear from the cartoon (which is called “The General Problem“), the idea is only to develop (design, document, code, whatever the verb is) enough to address the current requirements – you don’t know if there’s a future need, so how can you try to address it without making the current solution generic and unwieldy? And of course there’s a chance that the imagined future requirement won’t be exactly how you picture it, or just now exist at all, in which case your carefully crafted generic work is largely waste. Meet the current requirements and try not to paint yourself into a corner, but don’t worry about the future until you get there.
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