Archive for April, 2007

This happens way too often

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

“It hurts me to confess it, but I’d have given ten conversations with Einstein for an initial rendezvous with a pretty chorus girl… And how often, standing on the sidewalk involved in a passionate discussion with friends, I lost the thread of the argument being developed because a devastating woman was crossing the street at [...]

A social network stream of conciousness

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Someone else asked me a question whose answer turned out to be Gaia Online.
According to the data in the hints of the question, Gaia needs a serious revision upward in Alexa traffic rankings. I’m still wondering how revenue is going to keep up with costs though.
This company had a booth at ZendCon which was practically [...]

vim folding

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

My favorite vim setting
// vim:set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 foldmethod=marker syntax=php:
has the unfortunate side-effect of causing others to complain about the fact that my source code is “folded.” The problem is that some people who are only vim-users-only-when-working-on-a-remote-machine have a small learning curve when they see a page that looks like

<?php
// vim:set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 [...]