This is war
For months and months the debate has waxed and waned over whether the war in Iraq is a good idea or a bad idea. A proper war or an illegal action. Is it being won or is it being lost? In effect the debate has become an academic exercise, one based upon pedestals of numbers [...]
Some PHP gotcha’s
I thought I’d share a couple of minor PHP issues (actually, one’s a Mac issue) that bit me on the ass this evening, in the hopes that it might save you a few minutes of banging-head-against-wall time:
1. Despite the use of the semicolon to delineate line endings, the PHP interpreter hates parsing files with non-Unix [...]
I want this
I have no words, I just want it.
(Thanks Rui!)
Code as Aural Pleasure
When PHP meets Text-To-Speech: circuitAction.mp3.
// The circuit is the part that precedes the period
if ( strlen( $backEnd ) > 0 )
{ $circuitPair = split( “\.”, $backEnd ); }
$circuitActionArray["circuit"] = $circuitPair[0];
[...]
Show me where the bad man zapped you
I know it’s low-brow, but it’s funny: http://www.powergenitalia.com/.
(Via No-sword)
Freezing dogs to firehydrants
It’s cold out there today folks, wear pants.
Around the world, all alone
Just saw a news item that reports Richard Branson is funding Steve Fossett’s attempt to fly around the world non-stop, the “last great aviation challenge”, sayeth Branson. In the event that Fossett cannot make the flight, Branson will fly the plane instead.
That they’ve teamed up on this endeavour is pretty cool. In the past they’ve [...]
LETs: Light-Emitting Transistors
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, have made a light-emitting transistor.
…
“This work is still in the early stage, so it is not yet possible to say what all the applications will be,” Holonyak said. “But a light-emitting transistor opens up a rich domain of integrated circuitry and high-speed signal processing that involves [...]
Was that too harsh? I never know.
Perl’s beneath swine
After years of working with Perl, I’ve finally come to admit the ugly truth to myself: Perl sucks and sucks hard.
Not the language per se, which is absolutely, spectacularly less than stellar, but rather what’s really gotten to me is everything that surrounds Perl. It’s the lousy debugging messages. It’s the god-awful module install process [...]