In this area you’ll find other things I’m working on and/or interested in.
But have I mentioned my beautiful boys lately?
an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
In this area you’ll find other things I’m working on and/or interested in.
But have I mentioned my beautiful boys lately?
Not a book but a short story in the latest issue of the New Yorker.
I usually like the fiction pieces in the NY but this particular story, in its surrealism, seemed to tell me a truth I already knew but had forgotten. I immediately sat down to google Stephen O’Connor (the author) to find out more. He sounds like a compelling person.
The religious nature of the story continues a recent trend in NY fiction. Last week’s story was also very compelling, a kind of Flannery O’Connor-esque morality tale. O’Connor. There’s another trend. I expect next week’s fiction piece to have an O’Connor connection as well.
Speaking of New Yorker threads, has anyone else noticed the subtle vocabulary threads in each issue, where a single uncommon word might appear in multiple pieces in the issue? The editors must enjoy finding those connections in their submissions.
PHP lacks proper and complete Unicode support.
Come on people!
PHP lacks closures. That is, they are new in 5.3.
As with namespaces, PHP is Way Late to the Game.
I get literally hundreds of spam messages urging me to buy a higher education degree. I realized today why these kinds of messages must appeal, because I’ve had more than one dream in which I realized I had never graduated from high school or college and was completely unprepared to meet fill in challenge here.
These spam must be aimed at a kind of Jungian-level subconscious anxiety that manifests itself as the Unfinished Degree. Of course, there are plenty of folks who really do have unfinished degrees and are struggling in a competitive marketplace. But even a college-degreed person like myself still localizes my dream-time anxiety about life in not having finished school, and I suspect that is also at play.
The Unfinished Degree… <cue Jaws theme…>
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