Monthly Archives: September 2004

Text_Wiki 0.23.0 released

Posted on Thu, 30 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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

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Public School Teachers, Private School Kids

Posted on Sun, 26 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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Rules for the Obsessive-Compulsive Sociopath

Posted on Sun, 26 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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

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Text_Wiki Docs Update

Posted on Fri, 24 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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 :-).

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Why Coding Standards Matter

Posted on Thu, 23 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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. Continue reading →

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Marginal Utility of a Girlfriend

Posted on Tue, 21 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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. ;-)

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Posted on Sun, 19 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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Text_Wiki 0.22.0 alpha

Posted on Sun, 19 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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. … Continue reading →

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Why Americans hate foreign policy

Posted on Sat, 18 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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F. A. Hayek and Bloggers

Posted on Thu, 16 Sep, 2004 by pmjones

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 … Continue reading →

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