Archive for January, 2008

…While contemplating the murder of a web designer

January 28, 2008

Here’s a list of 10 possible alternatives to do :

Browse away and come back
Sometimes a refresh or re-navigation is in order to get your information and get away from there as quickly as possible before the helpful, “we are taking a survey” or “would you like to chat with a live representative” storm.

Keep searching
Chances are, [...]

Bin Laden’s Goth son wants peace

January 21, 2008

If this doesn’t show the West that the war mongers are not true Muslims, then I don’t know what will.
Yes, he and his wife are Muslims.

Saint IGNUcius has sent me his blessings.

January 15, 2008

As I have finally managed to get Mono working on Debian.

Not being a spectacular PHP developer, my web programming efforts have primarily been focused on ASP.NET, ASP and Perl before that. I managed to get my C# Indexer app on Debian up and running and managed to pass the results to a mod_mono equipped Apache [...]

Stop thinking!

January 13, 2008

Because we haven’t found a way to archive all of those thoughts yet.
There was once a wonderful project called GNUPedia, later GNE, that attempted to do just that (though it failed spectacularly), and didn’t amount to much. The closest to come was Everything2 in a similar spirit, but this particular venture is very convoluted and is, often, [...]

Simplicity, Consistency, and Appropriateness :

January 4, 2008

The three lost causes in programming for the web. Let us all join hands in prayer for the poor fools running Community Server for their hobby site.
I have nothing against complex, incredibly inappropriate and bloated software, but I do have a big problem with people who insist on using them for all occasions. I used to [...]