Office Slang
Dave sent me this link to geeky office slang.
We’ve heard them before (some from the Wired), but it’s fun reading them again.
Political popcorn
There has been some funding movement among the Democratic part.
You can read about it on The Next Hurrah or on the Swing State Project. Please remember these are sites slightly biased toward the Democratic Party, so it sounds a lot better than it is.
Translation: The Republicans are on full retreat and are cutting their losses to consolidate their funds to do damage control. However, the movement that is occurring is in the Senate, not the House. This is relevant because the odds are very, very low that the Democratic party will regain the Senate (Democrats need to win almost all the contested races) but around 50-50 that they can regain the House at this point. They need to regain at least one to have any referendum on the Bush “America as an Empire/we create our own reality” doctrine.Continue reading
Web APIs with PHP
I recently received the following book from Wiley:
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet so this will be a placeholder for a future review.
Argh!
I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything.Continue reading
Ultimate Blog Post of Ultimate Destiny
The ultimate blog post (Digg).
via Balloon Juice.
Flickr + HotOrNot
Torture and civilization
“Ensuring torture is totally banned under American law is a touchstone issue that defines our very civilization, to include its continued embrace of Englightenment values, a belief in progress in the face of adversity, and ensuring that our most odious enemies are not successful in having us sully our human rights leadership, one so hard earned through the Cold War.”
—Greg Djerejian, Neoconservative, “Has Waterboarding been banned?”
Split the bill
Blake sent me this article from the Onion: “Caltech Physicists Successfully Split The Bill.”
The Starship Zend-erprise
Hello
Thank you again for submitting a proposal for speaking at the Zend/PHP Conference in October. We have had an overwhelming response to our Call for Papers and, as a result, have had a difficult time in deciding which proposals to accept. After examining your proposal carefully, I am writing to inform you that it was not accepted in the first review cycle. However, we are placing it on a waiting list for further consideration.
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Most importantly, thank you for your patience as we investigate expanding the Conference schedule and thank you very much for submitting a proposal to speak at the Conference.
Ahh, the standard rejection letter! But how I got it is anything but standard and that’s what I want to muse about in this article.Continue reading