Today I nearly went mad because I had to determine the encoding of some html files.
I tried various command line tools without any success until a colleague showed me that firefox can
guess the encoding: In my version (3 under Ubuntu) it is located here: “View”>”Character Encoding”.
As I didn’t find that on the web, maybe this post will save somebody out there the trouble I had. 
Like probably everybody else in our industry I have a lot of tasks I should be working on at any given point in time. The question always is, how do I best get a handle on all the things I should/want to be doing?
For a long time I tried to use the system Steven Covey suggested in “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People“. The book is great and everything Covey says is very true. But as a time management system it fails. It reminds me a lot of the old waterfall.
Here’s a collection of funny code comments I ran into: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618
Our claim is to have self-explanatory code, so we hardly need comments… although some of these are really hilarious!
