Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

A Quick Guide To Making Style Sheets Work, and there’s lots more good stuff at Chunky Soup.

It’s beautiful outside today. Went for a nice walk earlier.

Empire USA
On The Last Word they had a guy talking about the USA and international affairs in the Middle East.
He talked about the idea that the USA is a modern day empire, that Americans didn’t even think of it as an empire, they became quite agitated when confronted with this idea and he covered a lot of other issues too.
He also pointed out that empires always come to an end, and the end may already have started to happen.
I just wish Today FM archived clips like RTE do so other people could hear it, no, I don’t remember what his name was, I only caught the last few minutes of the interview while driving home yesterday.
Here’s the obligatory Google Search.

I want to test the PHP Assertion Unit on my code.

Blood Diamonds
I read National Geopgraphic and they have an excellent article on diamonds which led me to do a Google search where I found Testimony of TONY P. HALL before the Trade Subcommittee of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. “Mr. Speaker, many of us are gravely concerned about the role the trade in diamonds has in fueling some of the most brutal wars in Africa.”

Evolt.org have some excellent articles linked from their front page right now.

I went to see We Were Soldiers last night and was blown away by it. It’s done very well, maybe too well. I left the cinema shaken, shocked and thoughtful. Go see it, but you may not want to watch it again.

Mysql and transactions:

Part 1

Part 2

From PHP Everywhere

More broadband promises – 5mb to every house by 2005. Skeptical discussion on ILUG can be found in the ILUG archives. Great! But as far as I’m concerned this is like setting up a committee to implement an environmental improvement program and then filling it with representatives of an oil company.

Guess that’s what they did in the States so why not in Ireland too?

FOREGONE CONCLUSION:

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
2. On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
5. Conclusion: Eat & drink what you like. It’s speaking English that kills you.

(Thanks Gillian!)