Paul M. Jones

Actively looking for testers on Oracle and Microsoft SQL; read on for more info about DB_Table.

Wretchard at Belmont Club is a great writer and analyst. Read this post right away.
It is interesting to compare Marine preparations to assault Fallujah in April 2004 with those apparently under way today, just months later. The Marine methods of April would have been instantly familiar to any military historian: hammer and anvil, seizure of [...]

This brief entry from Cafe Hayek about the Scottish Enlightenment is, ah, enlightening, especially when read in the context of emergent behaviors.
About Stewart’s intellectual biography of Adam Smith, Gould has this to say: “[Darwin] imbibed the basic belief of the Scottish economists that theories of overall social structure must begin by analyzing the unconstrained actions [...]

Or, “how __call() bit me in the ass” — and an apology.

I’m published! :-) My article about YaWiki is in the new issue of  International PHP Magazine (released today). Everybody go out and buy a copy.

Plugins can now be called as Savant2 methods when overload() is enabled. Read on for more!

Turning off sessions, Yawp2 pre-work, and a question about AOP.

Savant2 now has support for exceptions and includes an example (optional!) compiler class.

Walter Williams has something to say about school violence toleration. Here are the final parargraph:
I say it’s cruel and unreasonable to permit school thugs to make schools unsafe and education impossible for everyone else. Short of measures to immediately end school violence, parents at the minimum should be able to transfer their children out [...]

In response to the idea that the Gummint should nationalize “health care” (it’s really “medical care” but nobody ever says it that way) we have a great bit from code: theWebSocket; about how we need to nationalize legal care.
We could set it up like this: A new governmental organization, call it the Legal Security Administration, [...]