Archive for March, 2008

Thanks, weird Leopard hostname bug!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Awesome.

“Needless to say”

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Stop saying “needless to say.” It’s the most utterly asinine phrase ever, a meaningless string of syllables used by those too lazy or incapable of expressing themselves.
If something is truly “needless to say,” don’t say it.. You don’t need to. Saying “needless to say” just highlights the gratuitous dunderheadness being inflicted.
Stop.

New Moleskine Day

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Always a pleasant occasion, today is the day when I fill up the current notebook and switch to a brand new one.
In this case, it’s the large squared black cahier I use for meeting and project notes.

Uh-oh.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

This happened when I woke my system up from sleep:

I, uh, don’t suppose one of you happens to have the nam-shub of Enki handy?

Awesome PHP behavior(s) of the day

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

From the array_multisort() documentation:
Associative (string) keys will be maintained, but numeric keys will be re-indexed.
Now, consider this:
$data = array(”123″ => “one, two three”,
“456″ => “four, five, six”);
Can you guess what happens to the “123″ string? It’s automatically cast to an integer:
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