'(sundries)

- So everybody's been talking about the tsunami and how you should do something to help. Well, yes, you should do something to help. Personally, I clicked that link on google to find their Tsunami Relief Page, and then I found that Donating to the Red Cross and Red Crescent is tremendously easy. Their site is so nicely put together, and you can put in your credit card information right there, and it Just Works, and then you've donated.

- Would anybody complain (or complain a lot) if I bought a new drive for hackmode and took it down for a day to do a fresh Gentoo install? I'm thinking Thursday or Friday. If you know people who use this particular box (Brett zip4096 :) ), please let them know beforehand...

- PHP is so beautiful. I got the Cuckoo Book for Christmas, and I've been playing around with PHP a bit, and it's lovely. Remember when you were 12 and messing around with QBASIC, and you wanted to reference a variable whose name was stored in a string, learned that you couldn't do that, and then never expected another language to give you that feature thereafter? Well, PHP can do it... and other than that, it seems very reasonable, very pleasantly Perl-like :) eowyn the laptop is currently building mod_php and apache...

- Ah yes: recent pictures, the first batch is from finals week and the first part of the break (and involves people dressed as other people), and the second batch is from the trip we took to Atlanta for the Third Day of Christmas party.

"she's so indie..."

dramamamalama has recently discovered The Ditty Bops. They look like they're having fun, and inexplicably, they seem to have had their picture taken with Hulk Hogan:


... and pardon for hackmode downtime... I'll get it up ASAP. Which might not be until Wednesday night, eep! :-\

I think I'm about ready to be back in the ATL...

(also: William Gibson wants you to vote for James W. Johnson in the race for Emperor #2 of the United States. Here's his platform video. Don't disappoint the founding father of cyberpunk. Vote now!)