Yep, back from our excellent adventures in camping. It was a good weekend, sunny and hot, the nights not too cold. I was a little nervous about how the kids would do sleeping in the tent this year, but for nothing: they slept better than the adults did. The campground itself was a bit primitive—no… Continue reading Back Online
Month: August 2003
PHP Cruise Clarification
Back on the 11th I blogged about the PHP Cruise and quoted the price for 2 as $1199.99 plus $819.99. I wanted to clarify that I was talking about the Full Suite pricing, which is the most expensive (and would also be the nicest for traveling with my wife). Marco from php|architect commented to point… Continue reading PHP Cruise Clarification
Offline
I’m going offline this weekend, starting today at noon. We’re going to the annual family reunion, and camping out at Cold Springs Campground just outside of Sisters. And then Sunday when we get back, we have the Beach Boys concert. Full weekend. I may be back online Sunday night. Maybe.
Air Time
More on the California governor race. In order to be fair, federal rules dictate that all candidates have to have equal air time on television, and since there’s a huge disparity between the screen time someone like, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger has and someone like, say, Larry Flynt has, cable TV networks have made the decision… Continue reading Air Time
Google Calculator
Here’s an interesting tidbit: Google now has a built-in calculator. This is a cool feature to be sure, but AlltheWeb has been doing this for a while now (as an undocumented feature), since at least April 14, 2003. Try it and see.
PHP Cruise
Here’s a first: php|architect is organizing a PHP cruise. I’d heard of the geek cruises before, but I certainly never expected to see one exclusively for PHP. Interesting and slightly off-kilter at the same time. Prices put it out of my reach, however. $1199.99 plus $819.99 is just more than I could afford. It might… Continue reading PHP Cruise
Comments are now on
Okay, I’ve enabled user comments and I’m crossing my fingers. You should now be able to post comments to entries, starting with this very entry, if you’re so inclined. Hopefully nothing major will break! 🙂
Garage Salin’
Very tired tonight. We had a garage sale today—or more accurately, my wife had a garage sale, I had to work. Only I spent the night before doing heavy lifting to get things ready for it, and spent a good portion of tonight doing heavy lifting again to bring the big stuff back indoors. (And… Continue reading Garage Salin’
About RSS
Warning: technical entry. Feel free to skip if you’re so inclined. Today I’m talking about RSS. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s essentially a format for delivering data and content in an XML (read: structured) format. What kind of content? Well, any kind, really. Right now, the types of content you’ll most likely… Continue reading About RSS
From the Trenches
My day at work was certainly a tech support nightmare. Get this: as soon as I walk in, I’m told the server is down. Thinking (hoping) they meant the connection to the internet is down, I clarified the issue. Nope. The server. Damn. This is the main file/print server that everyone in the office uses… Continue reading From the Trenches