“Fortress” suddenly strikes me as being an unnecessarily gendered word. Additional: A large omelette should clearly be an “omel”.

Everything happening to you now, is not so far away from feeling like it may have been a dream. Whether you want to get away from it or make it all last forever, whether you are all wound up in Continue reading →

This is one of my favorite rants on the entire internet. It… hurts me, in ways only something which is intimately familiar can even approach. Share and enjoy: http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

It’s been a hell of a year. …and I think that’s all I want to say about that right now. I’m sure some of it will squirt out periodically as time goes by. Mostly, I just wanted to observe that Continue reading →

For something that’s so easy to fake, composure sure counts for a lot, doesn’t it? Crack a few jokes now and then, and you can almost fool yourself into thinking everything is just peachy. …okay, I’ll be totally honest, which Continue reading →

My fellow php linux(ish) people: This super-simple alias is for you. Or, more specifically, for your .bashrc. alias failtail=’tail -f /tmp/php_errors_apache.log’ Or, you know, wherever your apache php error log lives. As always, Share and Enjoy. 🙂

I’m still not at all sure how I feel about hackathon culture. Let’s just assume for a second that my first impulse has always been completely wrong, and the vast majority of the hackathons out there aren’t a barely disguised Continue reading →