Archive for March, 2007

That’s why they call it glue

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

Read Dru’s Thoughts on PHP.
[A couple more thoughts after the jump] (more…)
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When more costs less

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Ran out of hard drive space so I ordered a hard drive from ProVantage ($265.58) (PATA version—$265.39).
Here is the rub, the external drive is actually $13 cheaper ($251.74), but I ordered the one above because I’m done with PATA. Same drive, same vendor. That’s fucked up.
Well if you have a spare port on your Airport [...]

Stepping in it

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

I’m not blogging about politics because the wind changed direction—waiting finally beats getting worked up.
This sarcastic post from Balloon Juice though has a novel summary of what is going on with the Attorney General firings and how it occurred. This is just a fascinating piece of political good-on-paper-bad-in-practice maneuvering on the part of the Republican [...]

Facebook @ SXSW

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

When did SXSW become the “It” conference? I remember when people in the Valley would say “I have to go to SXSW” followed by a sigh that reminded me of how I used to approach mowing the lawn.
First comes the music, then comes the money, then come the geeks? Or is this another excuse for [...]

fo shizzle

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

In an e-mail recently someone used the phrase “fo’ shizzle.”
Now having worked at Plaxo I’ve heard the term and seen it used when we play Counterstrike and such, and it’s used on television more, but I never saw it written out. For some reason print or e-mail is different than chat or IM. I have [...]

The Shu Ha Ri of strings

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

In a discussion on the speed differences between various types of strings, I was completely misunderstood (or ignored).
Sad.
George told me his all-time favorite PHP talk of mine was the first one I gave: “OOPs: The PHP Fear and Loathing Guide to Basic Object-Oriented Design.” Perhaps one reason may be is this segment (click the image [...]

Sensing a great disturbance in the force

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

…of my 2008 budget.
“Depth of field” huh?

A Pentax medium format digital camera. 19 or 31 megapixel CCD sensor with 1.4x crop factor in 645 format (44mmx33mm). Basically that’s twice the image area of 35mm “full frame” or .7x “crop factor” 35mm equivalent. Just saying this just shows the total futility of thinking in crop factors. [...]

More foot in mouth

Monday, March 5th, 2007

This CrunchGear announcing the Olympus E-510 is the height of moronitude.
Basically he doesn’t like this 4-3 10 megapixel wonder child because it cost $100 more than the E 410 sister camera with only one difference: image stabilization.

“Now, who’s willing to pay $100 more for image stabilization?”
Let us deconstruct shall we?
[First blush on the Olympus after [...]

PHP continues ass-kicking

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Another month of Nexen.net’s excellent report on the state of PHP on the internet.

Very useful stuff for a PHP developer, especially in a hosted environment.
Thanks Damien. (more…)
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Slashdot is still good for a laugh

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

I thought maybe Slashdot at +5 would start getting better now that everyone has migrated to digg.
“Actually, lots of people have abandoned PHP for Python and Ruby.”
Dan Ost
Nope.
(I guess this depends on your definition of the word “lots.”) (more…)
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