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Reason #5001 to hate PHP
Suppose you have a library that's included in 100 different places in your codebase. Let's call it 'important.inc'. Posit that at the end of important.inc there is a single space character after the closing ( Read more... ) -
Light Therapy?
Any folks out there have personal experience with treating Seasonal Affective Disorder with light therapy?
I'm getting really sick of feeling like a character in a Russian novel for three months. -
Oh no! There goes Tokyo!
I have had this song stuck in my head all week.
Maybe if everyone I know listens to it, it will go away.
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Six Facts Meme
Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.
Tagged by akbar561. I have less than ten units of college credit. I dropped out of community college twice ( Read more... ) -
Mom Update
Mom had her final chemo a couple of weeks ago. They gave her Doxil again, which really beats her up ( Read more... ) -
Announcing: The National Association for the Giving of Five.
murphy_slaw: When was the last time you gave somebody five ( Read more... ) -
Requiem for a Hound
For some reason, part of the after-lunch conversation was about the death of Moose, the Jack Russel terrier who played Eddie on Frasier. This led to the following exchange ( Read more... ) -
Overheard at the Weekend Of Soup
Discussing the low quality of Dim Sum available in San Luis Obispo:
B: Yeah, it's not great. But if you get the pork buns when they just come out of the kitchen, they're acceptable.
L: It's hard to get the timing right though.
B: I just stand by the buffet line, and when I see the guy coming out with a fresh tray, I swoop.
L: You're spawn camping ( Read more... ) -
Hot Spanish Robots Want To Talk To YOU!
In the last 24 hours, I've gotten two calls on my cell phone from an automatic dialer with a prerecorded message in Spanish. My Spanish es muy malo, so I'm not sure what it says. Is anyone else getting this, or am I just lucky?
