I’ve been doing more and more PHP development lately. Along with other projects, I’ve been doing some ongoing development for one client and I’ve been having a lot of fun nailing down my personal style, figuring out my personal best practices. I realized recently that I should be looking into object oriented programming, and deciding [...]
This is so frigging sweet. Check this out: Doesn’t that just tickle your fancy? (Original article here.) Genetic manipulation; is there an ethical issue here? Let’s look at all the issues related to scientific research: Treatment of animals. The animal in today’s example, the pig, is thought to be one of the more intelligent species [...]
This is pretty cool; GmailFS is a program that allows you to use your Gmail account as a (slow) filesystem. What this means is that you get about 2gigs of space on a networked drive, available anywhere the internet is available. I’ve put up a few essential files that I wouldn’t want to lose (address [...]
On a lot of websites these days you’ll see a recommendation for Firefox. Different people use different arguments. It conforms to standards better. It isn’t as bloated as Internet Explorer. It doesn’t have as many bugs. It’s open source, so it’s full of yummy goodness. I’d like to give you my reasons for using Firefox [...]
The Henrico County school system in Virginia was just looking to retire some old, used laptops, and this is the thanks they get: [url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/computer.frenzy.ap/]CNN Article.[/url] Apparently the opportunity to get an iBook for $50 is worth crushing a child’s stroller, driving your car through a crowd, bashing people with a folding chair, and urinating on [...]