What an amazing life
to one day wake up;
the scorching sun on your face,
completely rested,
a tree swaying outside your window,
and a book beside your bed,
itself carefully chosen for its cover
to remind you,
upon waking,
of the exact spot you left off in your most current problem the night before.
A problem […]

I got a new phone. At least, that’s how it feels after updating the firmware. One of Wil Shipley’s assertions is that Mac users like to stay current with system updates. Now, I am a mac user. And good god DAMN, do I like to stay current with my updates.
Unfortunately, my eur/asian Nokia phone […]

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I recognize the same tactic that horrid clients at my old job used: create noise and emotion around the issue to distract from the truth.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish/tree/taner+akcam

Total Lines of Code = 15,212

Breakdown by programming language:
PHP: 10360 (68.10%)
sh: 4030 (26.49%)
Perl: 822 (5.40%)

Development Effort Estimate in Person-Years = 3.49 (41.8 mo.)
(Person-Months = 2.4 […]

( found on flickr )

http://tnx.nl/php - LOL

Fooling casual readers is easy. So is preaching to the choir. Even when you’re feeding your audience outright lies, they’ll eat it up if they want to believe. Sometimes, however, the liars forget that the rest of the world can hear them.

I just discovered an excellently packaged lie while searching for books on Armenia — […]

SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) purport to make sites search-engine-friendly so spiders can index your pages and find your content — fine. But often what masquerades as SEO/SEM is nothing more than unscrupulous hosers filling legitmate sites with spammy links (splinks) to fake, ad-filled websites they’ve created to harvest click-advertisement money. […]