The Curious Coder

I'm a fan of Doctor Who, the iconic British television series that dates back over 50 years. I started watching in the Tom Baker Years, lost track during the Colin Baker years, but have managed to watch every episode currently available, read dozens of novelization and am now discovering the audio adventures. I am such a fanboy that I would watch any Doctor playing Checkers with an ottoman for an hour and proclaim it an instant classic. I liked Christopher Eccleston mostly because he brought my beloved Time Lord back to the screen. But to be honest, I didn't like him as much as I did David Tenant who I liked slightly more than Matt Smith, with Peter Capaldi coming in a close third of the new batch. Then there's Jodie Whittaker. I liked her in "Broadchurch" (which I confess I only watched because it had David Tenant in it and because I also watched him in "Grace Point," the American version of "Broadchurch"), and thought she was great in th

I'm teaching a lesson on persistence in the browser using Local Storage, Session Storage, and Cookies this week. Of course, I found it interesting that two of the mechanisms are called "Storage" while the other is named, "Cookies." I've used cookies for years, and I always assumed they were named that for a reason along the lines of the "Hansel and Gretal" theory: Cookies were crumbs of information left behind so you could follow your state -- like the fairy tale characters dropped crumbs along their trail to find their way home. Of course, the children's plan was disastrously flawed since woodland creatures consumed the crumbs and they wandered, lost until they were lured to their deaths by the witch living in the gingerbread house. (Note: I know some versions of the story have them surviving the ordeal, but I'm pretty sure in the original version they were the witch's dinner.) It's a reasonable explanation, and many people