The building with the broken windows
9 February 2014
Once upon a time there was a building. It was abandoned, and stood for two years dusty, with bushes left to themselves in the yard... but all windows whole. One evening a man walked by and thought, nobody goes there anyway, and threw a stone and broke one window, for his own amusement. Within two weeks all windows were broken. A friend and former colleague, Joan Karadimov, told me this story on the occasion of... our own code that we were writing back in the day. So for the past week I went from all windows untouched to all windows broken. And my home has been in this state for over a month now. Well, the windows are OK, but the inside is in utter chaos; it's even sometimes hard to find stuff...