A Day in Paradise

Americans are stupid
BERLIN (Reuters) - A naked American tourist raised eyebrows when he went for a walk through a German city and told police he thought this was acceptable behavior in Germany.
“We have been having unusually hot weather here lately but, all the same, we can’t have this,” a spokesman for police in the southern […]

Here’s a Forum Post about IRC
Long before the days of the web and instant messaging as we knew it, there was IRC. Internet Relay Chat, was created in the late 80s but gained notoriety during the invasion of Kuwait and subsequent gulf war. Through IRC people who were lucky enough to have access […]

This are some notes from a talk I attended at the International PHP Conference in 2005. I don’t think I have blogged it yet. (you find all kinds of interesting things when you try to “clean up” your hdd)
Case study
Survey center is an online survey generator written in PHP. Used to run multi-country panel portals, […]

http://news.morningstar.com/index/indexReturn.html
http://village.albourne.com/places/data/
http://www.hedgeindex.com/hedgeindex/en/default.aspx?cy=USD
http://www.djhedgefundindexes.com/ (download available)
http://www.hedgefundresearch.com/index.php?fuse=indices
http://www.hedgefund.net/HFNRealtime/bench_index.aspx
S&P
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/us/page.topic/indices_500/2,3,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,5,12,0,0,0,0,0.html
DJIA
http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showavgIndexData

Gotta see it to believe it: http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classics-Week-Chocolate-Covered-SQL-.aspx

Tonight the frankfurt PHP User Group is celebrating their 5th anniversary! It was lots of fun knowing you all - I suddenly got a craving for Persian food - and I wish you many prosperous years.
Check out the website for meeting details. Wish I could be there.

Just hours before his execution by injection, a Tennessee death row prisoner who was convicted of killing a police officer ordered his final meal — pizza for a homeless person.
Philip Workman, 53, requested a vegetarian pizza be delivered to a homeless person in Nashville, Workman’s attorney confirmed.
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution refused, said Riverbend spokeswoman Dorinda […]

This is so wrong that I have to blog about it… in this month’s Forbes magazine they have this description of Open Source in their “Network Breakthrough Innovations” section:
1991 Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds kicks off open-source movement, a sort of wiki of computer code, with a plea for contributions to Linux operating system.
That’s pretty funny… […]

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I am finally back online on ALL my IM protocols, thanks to the newly branded pidgin client.
GAIM has always been a fantastic project, and I look forward to Pidgin following in its footsteps.
UPGRADE NOW!

Gotta get me a WRT54G then get DD-WRT running on it.

It’s been a crazy month, and like all crazy months it’s easy to lose your groove. Especially when you’ve moved continents. Especially when you’ve moved from working at home, to working at a job a real job (”real” defined as a job where you’re required to come to work everyday and dress in more than […]