It’s been a long long time since I wrote my last blog entry. Frankly, I don’t find myself a very interesting person and I certainly don’t have any interesting to blog about. I just do the ordinary boring stuff every day like go to work and study. Well, not that I think anyone still reads this blog by now but I could write about just that, my ordinary boring life. Except that I just don’t get why people do that, why would you tell the world about all the boring and plain stuff you do every day? Who is interested in that?!

What I find even less interesting and actually a bit frustrating is people that have a blog and never post anything on it. Yep, that would be people like me. At this point I’m considering to just delete my blog forever or if I should bother to try posting something interesting or at least somewhat entertaining a bit more regularly. Since my website would be even more boring if I didn’t have a blog that’s a pro for keeping it, the con on the other hand is that I don’t have anything interesting to blog about.

I could blog about things like that Ubuntu 10.10 was released today, but mostly everyone I know that got a blog are doing just that. More interesting could be to try it out and blog about it, but wait a few hours and the same people that bloged about the release will have that subject covered as well. I guess people find that interesting to read about and I don’t blame them, but myself I’m a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora user who don’t find it very interesting to read about new releases. Oh okey, I admit new RHEL releases is a bit interesting to read about. A side from that, why does everything seem so utterly boring and uninteresting to blog about? Could it be that everyone else already did or is it because they already know?

If we, for now, assume that I will keep my blog and I want to write about things that would interest not only my nearest and dearest. Assuming that the possible topics are within the categories about me and my life, computers or all of the above. What would you find interesting to read about from my point of view?

Cobol – COmmon Business Oriented Language – is one of my favorite languages and the one I’m absolutely most impressed with. It is one of the oldest programming languages that are still in active use. At this time it’s 50 years since Grace Hopper created Cobol and the first compilers was subsequently implemented during the year 1960. At December 6th and 7th 1960 essentially the same Cobol program was run on two different make of computers, an RCA computer and a Remington-Rand Univac computer.

Here’s some facts that you most likely didn’t know about Cobol:

1. According to a survey done in Great Britain and USA people are in contact with Cobol around 10 to 13 time every day.

2. Of 310 billion line of software that are in use today over 200 billion lines are Cobol, that’s about 65% of the total software.

3. Every day 5 billion lines of new Cobol code are produced.

4. 80% of all daily business transactions are processed in Cobol.

5. 70% of all mission-critical applications are written in Cobol.

6. 2 trillion dollars is the total investment in Cobol systems.

And of couse the famous Hello World for everyone that doesn’t know what Cobol looks like:

      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
      PROGRAM-ID. HELLO-WORLD.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
      MAIN.
          DISPLAY 'Hello, world.'.
          STOP RUN.