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My large beast of a 17 inch Sager laptop is now a desktop. I opened it 1.5 weeks ago to have the hinge snap out on me, a month after the 1 year warranty! doh! I’d been wanting to get a smaller laptop since I’m on the go so much, but was juts waiting for the right time. The large laptop is still in good condition, just no good for transporting. So, Nick ordered me a new one and it arrived yesterday and I have it mostly configured.

The brand is Crown and I ordered from PowerNotebooks.com and its great. It came naked so I could install the windows I already own (decided not to get vista, mostly what I do these days is run linux in VMs) and not have a load of crap on it like aol, et al. Its a 2Ghz dual core with 2 GB memory and 80 gig hard drive. Plenty of space for my VMs - was a bit cramped on 40GB on my older one. Its weighs just 5.6lbs with battery and I think will work out great. Since I have destructive tendencies it seems, Nick got the 3 year warrenty for this one!

It seems that some people misunderstand my love for language as having no focus.

I like going to usergroups and meeting fellow geeks - in my free time … I like learning languages - its fun. Some people collect stamps, or thimbles, or pencils! I collect languages.

What do I do?

Carry your towel with you throughout the day to show your participation and mourning.

When do I do it?

May 25th.

Where do I do it?

Everywhere.

Why a towel?

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I love it.

Thats all I can say.

I had a brilliant idea today. I tried to get a client to consider RoR and got the expected response. Hey, I’ll make a Framework called “Makin’ Do” here’s a list of features I’ve come up with so far:

• PHP 4.0
• MySQL 3.17
• No Pear
• Does not include any ridiculous testing apparatus (who needs it anyways?)
• No template system needed
• Database migration tools? that’s a self-service feature, best way is to just keep it in your brain, then you don’t need to worry about backing it up.
• Mixes PHP and HTML saves on the number of files you need. Less files you have the better.
• Uses extremely long file names, that way you can tell what’s in the file without even opening it example (”/department/officemanagement/administration/catalog/springCatalogUpdatePage.class.php”)
• Design patterns make it hard for mere mortals to understand, therefore you will not find any in this framework.
• Uses PHP Globals. Less typing then instead of hammering out $_POST, $_REQUEST, and $_GET

So how bout it?? did I miss anything??

And I think I will even make it a commercial product, since this is just the sort of things corporations dig!

There. I feel better 

To make up for going to the gym for 1.25 hours today (ever see anyone reading a perldoc print out on her lap while doing the chest press?), I went and got a container full of yummy food at the chinese buffet (and divided my booty in 3 contains, so now I have lunch the next two days as well, all for only $8). My fortune cookie for today said:

If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.

Funny I would get one relating to programming. hehe