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I leave for vacation tomorrow morning. I wont be back until the beginning of August. It's not as though this site follows any sort of regular update schedule, but, I thought I'd let you know anyway.

In testing a new piece of software to allow me to backup my address book in my cell phone, I smashed the wrong button the wrong way and erased almost all of my contacts. Therefore, I need your information, once again. If you have a vCard, just email it to me (jim [AT] revjim [DOT] [...]

There is one debate over within PHP that many people fail to fully understand both sides of. Lots of people who should know better make constant claims regarding the use of one method, and blindly praise the use of the other. Of course, I'm talking about PHP Template Engines.
For those that don't know, a Template [...]

Summer Nights(click to enlarge)

Rows of Summer Heat(click to enlarge)

With all of this talk of the benefit (or lack there of) of database abstraction layers, I feel the need to inject a bit of clarity into the discussion. It seems that many of the people who have so much to say on this topic are also the people who neglect to see the entire [...]

Yes. Yesterday was my birthday. So add one more to that number that represents just how bald, tired, un-cool, nervous, and grumpy I am. I've earned it.
Thank you to all of my readers who wrote in to wish me well.
(You can read about what I did for my birthday in that "other place":http://revjim.net/item/10064/. Also, [...]

Several times in the past, and again today, I have been asked why it is I don't simply publish *all* of the images straight out of my camera on to the web for my viewers to see. I'd like to attempt an explanation.
Very rarely is a professional photographer's work presented as a giant flip-book of [...]

Saturday night I did a photoshoot with Laura (who prefers that I don't link to her). I took about 140 shots and ended up with 9 that I liked. A lot of the unused photos were the result of choosing a background that just didn't work, resulting in an entire set of poses being tossed [...]