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I'm in Texas. I haven't slept (aside from the sleep you get with your head rattling against the window of a Greyhound bus) in 36 hours.
Jess is in Canada: denied admittance to the United States at the Immigration office in the Toronto airport.
After attempting to explore every option we [...]

This is my last day. My last day for shopping. My last day for cleaning. My last day for packing. My last day for everything.
I have four stores to hit up this morning. I also have to go the the library and drop of some severly overdue books. I've done two loads of laundry and [...]

As if my track record for procrastination wasn't known all over the world already, this year I've decided to test myself. I've waited until 3 days before Christmas to go shopping. One would think that would be enough to test my endurance, stamina, and ability to knock down old ladies with a shopping cart. But, [...]

Writing good, clean PHP code isn't hard. One just needs a few simple guidelines.
Start every project by building a "Model".

Before you even consider what it will look like, or even think of one snippet of HTML, think of what your program will actually do. Then, begin to write small snippets of code that do those [...]

If you program in PHP (or any language, really), and are developing something that you intend to release to the public, please, please, please spend the little bit of extra time it takes to develop your application properly. This means using function or classes to help break down and simplify the logic in your application, [...]

I don't generally announce this sort of thing, but these Optical Illusions are really good. Number 6 is my personal favorite. It literally knocked me out of my chair. (Flash Required)

I signed myself up for a Rapture Letter just so I'll know when it happens. [via The Gentle News] For those of you who don't know, the rapture, in a quick summary, is the supposed second coming of Jesus Christ at which time all believers will be led into heaven, whilst the non-believers will be [...]

For quite some time now, I've been attempting to devise an easy method to allow me to use the template engine of my choice for MovableType, as opposed to using theirs. The biggest reason for this is to save the time required to "Rebuild" for an insignificant cosmetic change. The secondary reason is to allow [...]

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American Beauty Mill
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CheckRDF was announced on Freshmeat yesterday:
CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable.

It can show new items via tail on the console, or in HTML. It appears to [...]