Beginner’s Guide to PEAR — PEAR HTML_QuickForm Getting Started Guide
Quickform is actually quite nice once you get your head around it. 
Man stabbed 2 relatives with carving knives, police say
Yay, thanksgiving!! The best part of the article:
Jack Levin, a criminologist, said the stabbing may seem peculiar, but is not rare, especially around the holidays.
OK, this is vanity surfing at its prime… I’m 57th place on google when you search for “Aaron”.
Something must be done about this!
wormus.com – Protest against software patents in Europe
Later this week, on November 25th and 26th, the EU Competitiveness Council will convene and soon attempt to formally adopt a proposed “Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions”, commonly referred to as the “software patent directive”. On May 18th, the Council reached political agreement on a draft legislation, however, did not take a formal decision to adopt it.
We urge the governments of the EU member states, which are represented in the EU Council, to oppose the debateless adoption of the said proposal as a so-called “A item”. In the interest of Europe, such a deceptive, dangerous and democratically illegitimate proposal must not become the Common Position of the member states.
Original text by Linus, Michael and Rasmus. Thanks to Toby for the idea.
Today I got a piece of spam that reads:
Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ….
That which brings the highest happiness!!
I didn’t think about it until on IRC a friend of mine announced that he got the same peice of spam and furnished me with the link to the following description.
Gouranga
A word that appears on moterway bridges in north west UK. It’s only purpose to annoy drivers who are left with a nagging curiosity for the rest of their day until the next day when it ceases to become important ever again.
Update: This link explains the term. Short explanation: Gouranga is Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Woohoo! Hare Krishna spam…
Here are a few links for the conspiracy theorist in us all.
Diebold’s Political Machine
Keith Olbermann’s blog
The Free Press
Terrorist Lockdown
Ralph Nader Calls for Recount
Kerry campaign scrutinizes Ohio
Democrats Blog
Oh, yes… and fuck the south!
If you don’t read any of the above links at least read fuck the south, it’s a rant but it’s as good as they get!
Here’s a cute site… I just called to say I’m sorry!
I need to get a camcorder… anyone ever heard of Fisher (that’s not Fisher Price)?
This camera looks pretty cool. I could get this one and get rid of my regular digital camera!
Powell: Iran’s working on nuclear missiles – (United Press International)
/me sees little pictures in his mind of Powell making the case for the Iraq war to the UN General Assembly.
I used to like Powell, but after his stint as Dubya’s lead stooge, I can’t take anything like this serious anymore.
If I were Iran I would be working as fast as I could to get “the bomb”, so I have no doubt that what he’s saying is true. The hypocrisy of it all is what reeks.
Even though I have four unopened computer books on my shelf, over the weekend I took the time to read Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons” (I keep wanting to write daemons). I probably wouldn’t have bothered if I hadn’t enjoyed the style and pace of “The Da Vinci Code”, but this book was seriously lacking.
The book starts off pretty much exactly like TDVC. Robert Langdon gets a phone call in the middle of the night because a scientist has been murdered at CERN and has been branded by an ominous Illuminati symbol. For those of you unfamiliar with Robert Langdon, he is the world’s foremost expert in religious symbology. Even though our hero seems to have a comprehensive knowledge of ancient history, the fact that he is unaware that the world wide web was “created” in CERN shows that his knowledge of modern history is a bit lacking. Later on in the book, his sidekick impresses him by very quickly figuring out the roman numeral for 503 (DIII), all this time I was under the impression that they still taught roman numerals in fourth grade.
Nitpicking aside, the general story line is that the dead scientist and his daughter had discovered how to create, and store, antimatter and had created the equivalent of a 20 megatons bomb. They swore each other to secrecy, but somehow when the scientist is killed the antimatter disappears. When the antimatter reappears, it is on a security camera and is hidden somewhere in the Vatican and the hunt to find the antimatter begins. They only have 6 hours before the antimatter explodes, so they begin their search. Tracing the tracing the signal of the video feed doesn’t seem to be an option, and the technically advanced team of Swiss Guards opt to scan to get a signal from the canisters “plastic batteries”. Robert and the daughter of the scientist decide to follow the “Path to Enlightenment” which is pretty much a treasure hunt set up by influential Illuminati members which leads to the “Illuminati lair” where they plan to find the ones who are behind everything.
All of the above takes place in the first hundred or so pages, it goes downhill from here. The plot slows, and the next 400 pages turn into an extravaganza of useless knowledge sandwiched between Dan Browns pseudo religious rhetoric.
Up until this point I had been tempted several times to put the book down, but the intriguing premise still held and many good books have slow bits. Not this one.
The last 100 pages tie up all the loose ends, in twist after painful twist. Just when you think it’s going to end, another twist is unveiled, until you feel like you were the one who jumps out of the helicopter three miles above the ground. That’s not a spoiler… within the first few pages of the book the fact that the hero will survive a long fall is given away.
The only thing I’ve read worse than the book, was this review. So don’t bother reading either… oh well, we’re already done here! So if you’ve sat through this, you’ll probably enjoy the book. Maybe it’s really not that bad… I just haven’t had a good winge for a while! I’m going to watch a rerun of Farscape!
So if you’re surfing though google and you need to contact Aaron Wormus the following is my contact information:
email: firstname@lastname.com
YIM: rented_page
MSN: same-as-yim@hotmail.com
If you can’t figure that out, then I don’t want to hear from you!
New GOP rules could help DeLay
The change, proposed by Rep. Henry Bonilla, a Texas Republican, would apply only to leaders indicted by a state prosecutor or grand jury. A party leader indicted by a federal court would have to step down at least temporarily. The GOP conference, however, could waive that restriction at any time.
A Texas grand jury in September indicted three of DeLay’s political associates on charges of using a political action committee to collect corporate donations and funnel them to Texas legislative races.
Ebay pulls the 10-year-old cheese sandwich with an image of the Virgin Mary, only to realize that it was a serious auction (meaning big $$ for them). The item was relisted and closed at $99.9 Million.
A pretty good picture on the above link.
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