Dance, pony, dance!
Archives for August, 2006
Figured I should pimp this
If you’re a Ruby fan and in the Michiana area, there’s a Ruby users group in South Bend you should join. Two meetings, so far. It’s fun to meet like-minded enthusiasts. Also, the meetings have been held on Notre Dame’s campus, which gives it that enthusiastic, collegiate feel. It’s not just Ruby, but also some [...]
I had to look long and hard to find this again
The true story of Leia and Vader. It’s a music video. It’s really cool… if you ignore the fact that, you know, she’s his daughter.
a pound of meat
That’s what a 1 pound hamburger looks like. So good. I recomend checking out The Ram, which is sort of a sports bar and grill thing. Excellent burgers.
Curious Proximity
One other thing. This was a poster at one of the booths at the convention. I’m not sure that Hamilton belongs in the same grouping as Jordan, Martin, card and Feist. I’ve read a few of the Anita Blake vampire hunter books (until it turned into freaky, constant furpiles)… I think the tone of her [...]
Wizard World Tour 2006 (Chicago)
No information for you. I attended Wizard World Chicago, yesterday. It was rather enjoyable. Wizards is actually a comic convention, but there’s so much crossover with comics and other scenes that it ends up being kind of a pop-culture mecca. It’s way fun.
PHP XML functions are sucky
I mean, they’re cool and have a certain level of power to them; however, using them necessitates writing essentially unreadable code. If you have to write multi-line comments documenting the return value or behavior of a language function, that function is poorlyl named or poorly implemented. By way of example, I direct you to xml_parse_into_struct