Been a while since I’ve posted. Not that I haven’t had things I want to write about, I’ve just been allocating my sparse time elsewhere. There have been articles about blogging being dead. Baah. There have been articles about Twitter’s short attention span pushing into blogging’s space. Perhaps some truth there. As I was driving … Read more
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“… the code behind a symfony-driven application can seem quite daunting. It consists of many directories and scripts, and the files are a mix of PHP classes, HTML, and even an intermingling of the two. You’ll also see references to classes that are otherwise nowhere to be found within the application folder, and the directory … Read more
I woke from a dream at four a.m. this morning: The City of Houston plumbing inspector had been a woman, it was her last inspection of the day, and after inspecting the gas line, she started hitting on me. We ended up scheduled to have dinner at her place. I also noted that the caps … Read more
I finally synchronized a borrowed chain-saw, electricity (for the electric chain saw), free time, and daylight to allow me to climb onto the roof of the garage and cut off the two main trunks of elm that were still up there. Quite a bit of physical exertion was required, though it only took about an … Read more
The markets are in a free fall. Friday the Dow swung 1000 points. (18% down for the week) At the end of the day, it rallied to only be 150 down. Hoping positive thoughts for the G7 Financial Ministers meeting this weekend. They think they’re going to get seven pre-eminent economists to agree on a … Read more