American? Voting Democrat? Can’t decide between Hillary and Obama? Surely, you’re not voting for that war-mongering, piece of trash, wanna-be-straight-talking, I-don’t-know-anything-about-economics, another-100-years-in-Iraq-is-fine-with-me, face-it-people-this-man-is-Bush-with-a-different-name McCain, right?

Read this. Now.

No.

I’m glad Barack Obama took the time to explain his religious conviction and how it relates to the way it drives his views, as well as how he understands that we live in a country that is not only Christian.

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Here’s a comprehensive list of 1 Sign that you’re a lousy PHP Programmer.

1. You write a list of 40 reasons someone is a lousy PHP programmer when over half the reasons don’t apply to every situation, much less a lot of real-world situations.

Honestly, I wanted to tear this one to pieces with a really long entry outlining why certain points on that list were just ridiculous. I won’t bother. If you’re even a mediocre PHP Programmer and understand certain concepts, you’ll be able to do it yourself.

Granted, there are some common sense points in there, but most of the valid points on his list are just that: common sense. There are a few noteworthy items that aren’t common sense, but I was so taken aback by some of the outlandish claims that I can hardly count those. Don’t say I didn’t warn you, if you feel your IQ drop while or after reading that list.

Disclaimer: I don’t really think this person is a lousy PHP Programmer, but I do think it was in poor taste that he BSed a list like this and included points that are completely unreasonable.

I announced it last year, so I’ll do it again this year. Today is Ruzena’s birthday.

She’s now 19 and even more beautiful than she was at 18. She’s aging very well, I think.

Happy birthday, sweetheart.

As much as I hate to upstage Shroomy, when I saw this I had to link to it.

You saw my response to CIO’s piece of trash article about PHP. Now, have a look at Terry Chay’s.

Enjoy.

Opera can suck up its fair share of memory, too. Take a look:

But, let me show you why it’s still better than Firefox:

It garbage collects properly like just about every other Windows application on the freaking planet when minimized.

What is with the blog applications that bring entries back to the top of the RSS Feed when they’ve been edited? That has to be the most retarded functionality anyone’s ever come up with.

Case in point, I was reading Planet PHP this morning and a 2-year-old entry that outlined the ongoing childish attitudes some people within the PHP Community have resurfaced. If I hadn’t checked the dates on all of these particular blog entries, I would’ve thought this was new material. Since this entry served as a gateway to another blog entry that was a specific attack on Chris Shiflett, any random passer-by who thinks this is all new stuff is going to a) have negative thoughts about the “whiner” in question; or b) have negative thoughts about Chris over something that’s two freaking years old.

I implore you. If you’re the author of any blog software, stop doing this. Not only is it extremely annoying to get repeats of old crap in my RSS Feeds whenever someone edits something, it can lead to potentially hazardous things like this resurfacing and causing unnecessary damage to one or more people’s reputations.

I’ve gone through and reposted some of the old entries from Privett on PHP. Just the ones that I thought were worth bringing over. I set their dates to their original date of posting so that they wouldn’t all float up to the top here. You can scan through the PHP category if you want to go back and read them again.

Wow. The TSA made a bold move. They’ve setup a blog and are asking people for their comments. They even list the people that are doing the blogging.

I wonder what the scale of the complaints they’re going to get is. This should be interesting to watch over the coming months.

This could very well be unhealthy … But, I can’t help but think there’s got to be someone out there who’s worse. Much much worse …

I guess it could be worse.