I finally decided to create an account and so I've got this journal.
Now I just need to determine if my ramblings warrant preservation and a wider audience (where 'wider audience' means the two people that will read this, both directed here by me). In short, I'm skeptical about this.
This is where you get to reply to tell me to keep my thoughts to myself, or to share some more of my wonderful opinions with the world.
two people that will read this, both directed here by me
Sssh. Don't tell anyone that there is a list of recent journal entries on the front page of use.perl
Re:your secret is safe with us
kudra on 2003-07-10T11:34:54
I knew that, I just didn't think anyone would follow the link. Probably you didn't yet know what a dull posting it was.
Yes, share more of your opinions with the world! For example, how is your quest to improve the testing capabilities of your colleagues?
Re:Directed
kudra on 2003-07-10T11:36:11
We're currently in the process of trying to come up with a style guide.But one should never talk about work in a public place where the people you work with may read it
;)
where 'wider audience' means the two people that will read this
The number is growing by the minute
I'd really like to know what you think of the effects of three field crop rotation on medieval society.
:)
Re:Well, as long as you're sharing...
kudra on 2003-07-11T14:06:32
Three field crop rotation was a great boon on medieval food production. Like the invention of the heavier plow for more northern climes, the discovery that crops such as alfalfa could be used to enrich the soil and increase production was an invention easy to underestimate today, when food is in abundance (even if it is poorly distributed).In the WWII, British farmers considered cultivating higher in the hills, but abandoned the locations after realizing that the yield was too low to sustain life. Yet at these sites, evidence of medieval farming was found. With the techniques of the period this would have been completely futile.
One of the problems facing the medieval farmer was the increasingly small plots of land available. It was customary for land to be divided amongst sons, leading to a smaller family plot each generation. Such was the state of peasantry that the black death was in fact a useful development (from the perspective of the class as a whole, rather than the individuals) because it reduced the population enough to ensure more land and greater wages for the lower classes.
Blah blah blah blah blah, and thusly blah blah blah. Furthermore, blah blah blah. In conclusion, blah and blah--blah--blahblah (blah).