February 2008 BY Paul Ford 2008 124 Sections : Wish I'd seen more of you. The constant is inviolable. No NULLs. : That article isn't even worth "free." : The concluding grafs were EPIC FAIL. : "Grouse grouse grouse," Grouse grouse grouse.... : See "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."... : Mary J.'s heart understands my heart. That problem sent me to MacPorts. sudo port install git-core. Took 5ever. Those were not representative NYC sandwiches. : Nope. Get DosBOX, then download DPaint.... Don't kid yourself. It'll be hell. Vacation is necessary punishment for nerds. You'll write code in the sand. Things've been tough lately for dreamers : will cure more sins THEN condemnation? : I've followed Redmonk feeds for years. Just saw you. Also following sogrady. Hey. Nice having lunch last week. : That is powerful exaggeration right there. : It forces me to make choices. : I place no limits on others. : Shit, that's great to hear. Thanks. : Exactly; you said it just right. : It truly is the dumbest thing. : Not many words for conversation, capisci? : Six words, five spaces, who cares? Hillary refuses to make me lemonade. Hillary won't drive me to school. Story: You resembled my wife's ghost. I LOVED _Juno's_ quirky episiotomy scene. Oh, mod_rewrite. Why? Why? WHY? WHY? Why didn't Apache just use Befunge? A few hours lost, so what? The office was dry and warm. Emulated Newton now running quite smoothly. Emulated Crystal Quest brought me joy. Screenplay still unfinished. Pills, bed, repeat. Estelle is basically Mary J. Feist. Publishers! Bend over for crowd wisdom. Anger at Best Buy: applied futility. Today's preventive medical test scares me. Too much music in SXSW torrent. Git has caused severe brainache tonight. New Ftrain about clouds and nails.... Rob Rob. Refuse refuse! What others? Article I edited is now free. (http://harpers.org/archive/20... My bodega banana is entirely unacceptable. Tired of users forgetting they registered. Been crushing on Estelle lately, too.... Two dollar draft beer. Day obliterated. One dollar house pints. Wife horrified. "The way a crow/Shook down"! Entangling Markdown, XSLT, and RDF failed. I was foolish to expect otherwise. Yes, trees need streams to grow. But streams do not need trees. Minnie Driver, disliker of "blog... Coolest thing ever: DeluxePaint for MacOSX. MySQL with native support for RDF. A spreadsheet with extraordinary text handling. Sales call: "Heard of Six Apart?" Yes, I said. Yes I have. "Witchy Woman": The Banality of Eagles Doris Lessing wears a man out. Which white southerner will be veep? Disappointing to watch The Wire implode. I distrust Tampax®'s African tampon strategy. Moving CMS from SeRQL to SPARQL. Coolest thing ever: unlimited world snacks! I love Perl. It's a glutton. Compiling emacs on my Antikythera mechanism. _Brown_, Richard Rodriguez: reason to read. Ftrain now embraces the Facebook revolution!... Multivolume "A History of Technology" arrived. Verizon guy's twin must hate life.... Screenplay emailed. Reading ACM on OLPC. "Keats spoke with a cockney accent." Q.U.I.P. check: Q.A.'ed, Usable, Interesting, Pretty. Best way to GPL Harper's CMS? Seeking "All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis." Posted Google data center blueprint:... Omakase at Hatsuhana. Delicious, delicious mercury. I must refactor everything very soon. The cats have now taken control. The best work burns every bridge. Broke boss's chair, despite losing weight. Openads approaches accountable, Nelsonian transclusion. (Well, not really. But it's interesting.) Falernian arbors are lost to history. The beagle wins! Eat it, terriers. Reuters offers metadata extraction via SOAP. Swallow-sized pterosaurs had long toes. Strange to say "my wife's blog." My librarian grandmother met Eleanor Roosevelt. "This is not an aphorism."—Derrida Photoshop batch mode kisses satan's hoof. I now have an intern. Odd. : So much easier when they're here. PHP's pidgin: for trade, not poetry. Heart of Darkness: McCain is Kurtz. Content, context, contact: apparently all "king." I recite six rules each day. "Be a man, not a guy." "Love should be easy; work, hard." "Nothing is beneath me, or above." "Avoid nicotine, sugar, starch, meat, alcohol." "Basically, I'll never be that happy." "Under no circumstance wear buttoning vests." I often fail at all six. All posts will be six words. A Manhattan conference: publishing requires community. The new books have more buttons. The Web I loved is dead. Sinatra named his plane "El Dago." Ancient Roman map: 1800 square feet. Helen of Troy: hatched from egg. I trust my users. TO SUCK. Sweet college memories of ISO 8879. Upon Vampire Weekend/Would Leslie've opined? Whole Foods looms over my neighborhood. "EXCELLENT PowerPoint. Fetch me fresh trousers." The screenplay must be finished tonight. SF Zoo should've upgraded to Leopard.