Posts from: October, 2008

29 Oct 2008

When your campaign needs a plumber

They’ve got to be pretty desperate to put these people out there. Joe Wurzelbacher twice agreed with a questioner who said that “a vote for Obama is a vote for the death to Israel.” Afterwards McCain’s campaign backed him up: “Joe has offered some penetrating and clear analysis that cuts to the core of many [...]

22 Oct 2008

Bring on Skate 2

Before EA skate was on the horizon I started a post about how the THPS series was no longer cutting it, but I never got around to posting it. While they’ve obviously done something right, THPS has never been about realism and I think there are plenty of players (probably mostly skaters) who’re looking for [...]

22 Oct 2008

Satchel’s Pizza before and after

A real Gainesville treasure just a few blocks from our house. Last weekend we were there with Kathleen’s mom and my parents. March 2003 2008

14 Oct 2008

Learning from the Free Market

When government regulation is completely removed from the picture, business thrives, and one industry has a particularly impressive success story. Its products are produced where costs are low and sold elsewhere with monumental margins. In fact these extraordinary profits help this industry overcome enormous hurdles of distribution; not even incredibly powerful organizations with endless supplies [...]

13 Oct 2008

Where’s the code?

Google’s free open source project hosting has been awesome for Minify, so when I was looking around for Subversion hosting for my personal code, I figured why not host it there? So here’s a bunch of my PHP and Javascript code. Hopefully some of it will be useful to people. A few PHP highlights: HashUtils [...]

13 Oct 2008

A faulty argument for policing morality

Recently the Gainesville PD conducted a prostitution sting that busted a particularly vile couple who solicited sex in front of the woman’s six year old son. In addition to the prostitution charge, the woman was rightfully charged with child abuse. I heard about this on the radio, and the report included a quote, I’m guessing [...]

9 Oct 2008

Right thinking on Healthcare

I see this as the bravest statement made in the 2nd Obama-McCain debate: I think [healthcare] should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills—for my mother to die of cancer at the age [...]

8 Oct 2008

Getting phpQuery running under XAMPP for Windows

While trying to run the initial test scripts included with phpQuery 0.9.4 RC1, I got the following warning: Warning: domdocument::domdocument() expects at least 1 parameter, 0 given in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpQuery-0.9.4-rc1\phpQuery\phpQuery.php on line 280 This is strange because DOMDocument’s constructor has only optional arguments. As it turns out, XAMPP for Windows ships PHP with the old PHP4 [...]