error: can't see wood for trees

You have to wonder about Google's geolocation database integration sometimes; you'd suspect that if they can display a name at the correct location on a map, it should be possible to search for that placename, right?
( apparently not. )

some people just don't deserve any sympathy

"The evacuation of hurricane victims from New Orleans' Superdome is halted after a rescue helicopter is shot at." Seriously now. WTF?

quote evolution

Once upon a time I said

You're definitely in trouble when you look at a text parsing problem and think, "this would be easier in Emacs Lisp".

Having considered this, and also watching two different people flail with problems in two different languages, I have concluded that the quote can be generalised to

You're definitely in trouble when you look at a $domain problem and think, "this would be easier in $language"

with suitable values inserted for the quote-user's particular problem/bias. Examples are "mail-sending, SQL", "video-editing, Fortran" (note that these are real examples, and the former's mine, and yes I did).