DIY Anti-Terrorism
Amanda Ripley wrote a great piece in Time the other day about how we're all being trained to count on the TSA and other governmental agencies to protect us from threats like the Christmas Day plane bomber.
It Exists Where I Say It Does
A few years back, I was working in a development shop using a source control package that insisted that all of the developers using it have their code in the same logical location. We settled on "D:\Code" for our standard and made sure everyone stuck too it, as changing the setting to anything else screwed up the rest of the team.
The World Turned Upside-Down
Mark it on your calendar: On December 25th, due to emerging trends and really bad weather, for the first time ever, e-books outsold paper books.
Scroogernomics
There's a new book out called Scroogernomics that explains very well one of the things I hate most about the upcoming holiday season: Gift giving is extremely wasteful.
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Installing PHP on a Windows server is a labor of love. Unfortunately, I'm not a great fan of that kind of labor.
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Deep Thoughts
I was listening to Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the other day, and the narrative wandered into a section on theoretical mathematics.
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