A Day in Paradise

Woohoo, new Rambo!
John Rambo has been living a secluded lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old boats and tanks for scrap for twelve years. But when a group of volunteer aid workers bringing supplies into Burma disappear, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. He heads off with a small […]

This is old news by now… just wondering how the european section of the “coalition of the willing” will do anything to stop the handing over of saddam since it so directly opposes the European stance on Death Penalty.
With Iraqis braced for Saddam Hussein’s execution, the former dictator’s lawyer said Friday the U.S. military has […]

Hiro Nakamura from heroes is actually a code warrior in real life. His profile can be found at this great wired article.
“I’ve been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college,” said Oka. “ILM offered me an entry-level position at its Marin, California, […]

Finally I got around to posting some of my old pictures from IPC2k4. A lot of the regulars, some faces who we haven’t seen in a while. Enjoy.
A couple blogs from back then:
http://www.wormus.com/aaron/stories/2004/11/07/php-conference-day-1.html
http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/274-PEAR-Powerworkshop-Part-II.html
Unfortunately a lot of the blogging was done on the phpconf blog which seems to be down

Celebrate with the apocalyptico remix, and 10 things I hate about commandments.
In all seriousness though, have a happy holiday!

a chat I had with some of the lurkers on #phpc

A flurry of PHP updates this week… on the heels of PHP5.2 we have ezPublish 3.9 and Zend Framework 0.60 and ezcomponents. While I have updated the PHP version on the server, I’m holding out on ezPublish and ZF till the holiday weekends.
I released the 5th article on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series, this […]

Nice free enterprise search solution from IBM and Y! The 5 minute flash walk-through shows some of the neat features. There aren’t a whole lot of technical details other that it’s Lucene based.
As seen on UB

I wasn’t very impressed with this song in the tomb raider music video (what was with the flying elephants), but this version totally rocks!

… because they dive into it like this.

Image courtesy of an International PHP Magazine.

Light a virtual candle to raise awareness of AIDS/HIV in the US.
Current candle count: 1261368

… and wearing a kilt

Maybe I’ll “upgrade” now… can’t stand the way FF2 works with tabs
<awormus> anyone know a way to put the tabs in ff2 back to how they worked in ff1.5?
<Akrabat> yes
<awormus> TELL ME
<Akrabat> I suppose I’d better look it up now
<awormus> I have FF2 on my laptop, but there is NO way I could […]

I posted a seo review on my Hedge Fund Website blog. For anyone who’s interested… digg it while you’re there

… on this one.
I certainly don’t know all the facts, but 40 years sounds like the country throwing the book at the serviceman because they don’t like the fact that he was in the country to begin with. But then again, there are 968 people who were sentanced to death for rape, so maybe he […]