Paul M. Jones

This release incorporates preliminary Latex rendering support, a couple of small bugfixes, and one moved rule.

From The Entrepreneurial Mind: Watch What They Do; Don’t Listen to What They Lobby For.

Competition in domains that were once thought to be permanent governmental monopolies is proving to be effective in many arenas. Certainly schools have been one of the modern success stories of privatization. In today’s Tennessean it seems that public school teachers [...]

All the other rules derive from Rule Number 1. What is Rule Number 1? You’ll have to read the post. ;-)

I have updated the documentation for Text_Wiki. The biggest changes are that CSS classes are now supported in all appropriate XHTML rendering rules, and TOC generation is much more streamlined and XHTML 1.1 compliant (with div tags and everything :-).

PHP developers need to define and adhere to a coding style not because one is better than another but because we need a standard by which to collaborate. In that sense, coding style is very important; not for itself, but for the social effects generated by adherence to defined standards. I advocate the PEAR coding style as a standard.

I think this is funny and mostly accurate. It certainly describes my own experience, and is also probably why I don’t have a girlfriend right now — my MU(A) is too high. ;-)

Perfect. Movie.
I wish I could review it properly, but I cannot. It is simply outstanding. Imagine a CGI homage to all the sci-fi cliffhanger reels from the 30s, throw in more modern references to Star Wars and Indiana Jones (which themselves were modeled after those same films), and add way-cool impossible-but-spectacular retro-technology like [...]

I just released Text_Wiki 0.22.0 alpha. Lots of improvements and no backwards-compat breaks; see the change log here.
Special thanks go out to Bob Glamm, Aaron Kalin, and Stephane Le Solliec for their very active efforts leading to this release. Thanks, guys. :-)
Text_Wiki is a PEAR package that abstracts parsing and rendering of [...]

An excerpt from the Telegraph: Why Americans hate foreign policy by P. J. O’Rourke.
Being foreigners ourselves, we Americans know what foreigners are up to with their foreign policy - their venomous convents, lying alliances, greedy agreements and trick-or-treaties. America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don’t think that way.
We don’t think much at all, [...]

This fits in very nicely with complex adaptive systems, emergent phenomena, dynamism, and so on.
TCS: Tech Central Station - Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works
If Nobel Prize winning economist F.A. Hayek had been watching last week as bloggers spontaneously responded to fraudulent documents aired by the program “60 Minutes”, he would’ve grinned in humble satisfaction. Hayek’s [...]