A Day in Paradise

EA Games Poll Results
After this seemingly harmless blog entry, this EA poll gets “getfirefoxed”.
Total votes: 673205
The results: 98% firefox, 1% IE, 1% everything else.
In other news: Mozilla is dead, Long Live Mozilla!

2004 Results
You can’t beat this one for worst starting paragraphs of a book:
She sipped her latte gracefully, unaware of the milk foam droplets building on her mustache, which was not the peachy-fine baby fuzz that Nordic girls might have, but a really dense, dark, hirsute lip-lining row of fur common to southern Mediterranean ladies nearing […]

The Real Battle (washingtonpost.com)
Wesley Clark has always been good at breaking down what’s happening. This is a good example of this. A bit long, can’t honestly say I read the whole thing. But the beginning was interesting

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
That’s funny, because that’s exactly the opposite of what they were saying on CNN.
One notable quote from that broadcast: “Falluja is now liberated from the foreign forces that occupied it”

Alturo.de
Thanks to Stephan Schmidt for pointing me to this cool dedicated hosting service. It’s a new company (good support) and the servers are in same data center as 1and1 servers in Karlsruhe. Not to mention dirt cheap.
Aparantly they have an IRC friendly AUP.

sevenohfive - movies
Pretty funny stuff! Check out sometime!

PEAR Power Workshop - Morning Session Wrap - PHP Conference & MySQL ComCon
OK, so now I’m spamming planet-php with yet another IPC2k4 post.
Great start to the conference. Apart from a bit of difficulty locating the venue (there are 4 NH hotels, the one you are looking for is “Moerfelden” and you need to take […]

This is a quick HOWTO which covers running multiple installations of PEAR under Windows. I am using Windows 2000 so this may not work under older Windows versions. The development of the PEAR installer is moving quite rapidly, so hopefully soon these instructions will no longer be needed and the functionality will be built into […]

Welcome! - PHP Conference & MySQL ComCon
The team at Software and Support have set up a blog which will be information central for what’s going on at the International PHP Conference 2004.
I’ll be doing full session by session blog coverage of the conference, so if you won’t be able to attend, bookmark the site as […]

When I say that I was disappointed to find this book in my mailbox, it is only because I knew that when I got my hands on it I wouldn’t put it down for the rest of the day. Keeping up with the style of my 5-Minute-Reviews, I’ll have to prefix this by saying that […]

… he survived twins, how much more difficult could this gig be?

A great quote from HopeOS on /.:

It’s the economy. There is no issue more pressing.
As someone commented earlier around the watercooler, we’ll have plenty of time to discuss gay-marriage and stem-cell research when we’re a third-world nation.

Yahoo! News - Something You Don’t See Everyday…
Here’s a wierd way to get your 15 minutes of fame… German police detained a naked 25-year-old woman and her 23-year-old partner who were engaged in sexual intercourse on the pavement in the middle of a busy shopping district, police said Saturday.

BrainTenYrs.mov (video/quicktime Object)
Very interesting piece. It turns out that Bush was a pretty decent debater 10 years ago when he ran for Governer.
What happened?

I’ve looked for this several times, so am putting it here for future reference. It’s in:
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\