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Soup and Circus

I was eating lunch today and reading my RSS feeds. Every half-dozen spoonfuls or so, I’d look at my bowl to plan my next phase of attack, but mostly I was just reading the blogs. Near the end of my soup, I looked down and saw a big clear chunk on my spoon. Now, I’veContinue reading “Soup and Circus”

And an irrational number of closets

I was looking at real estate listings today and there was one place that had “1.1” baths. I’ve heard of 1.5 baths, but what’s .1 of a bath? A bidet?

RSS Idea

I saw a video today about how Microsoft imagines 2019 to be. It gave me the idea of how to do a better RSS reader, which is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. It’ll have a main page with snippets of stuff in sections like a newspaper, and you can click on aContinue reading “RSS Idea”

New comic up!

On the main page. I’ve got adding a comic RSS feed to the todo list…

phpdoc hell

I’ve been fighting with phpdoc for about a week now, trying to figure out how to document my extension, which is a combination of PHP and C code. I finally figured it out, and since I haven’t seen this documented anywhere, I figured I’d reproduce the steps here: Download phpdoc from CVS. No! Not PEAR,Continue reading “phpdoc hell”

Pain in my CVS

This is pretty geeky, so sorry non-technical reader. There’s a glossary at the bottom if you’d like to follow along. I’ve been developing a PHP database driver for work, and this week I proposed it as a new PECL (pronounced “pickle”) package. Unfortunately, they use CVS for their packages. I’m used to Git. So, IContinue reading “Pain in my CVS”

Nifty Flash Thing

Someone at work showed me http://www.wordle.net/create, which is cool. Using this blog’s URL (one whole post!) gives: which I suppose it mostly accurate. I think this blog will be less about CURRENT in the future (even though that sounds… strange), and more about cartooning, Linux, reading, and stuff like that. If I remember, I’m goingContinue reading “Nifty Flash Thing”

Downloading the Archives

Usually I discover new comics by reading a recent one I like, then starting from the beginning and reading the whole oeuvre. Unfortunately, I’m often not connected to the internet. So, if you like my comics: Email me and let me know. Artistic insecurity knows no bounds. Use this handy-dandy shell script to download themContinue reading “Downloading the Archives”