This is to test my form processing thing...
John gives Howard Dean the fisking he deserves:
Come on, even an anti-war Dem like Dean should at least be able to admit that the Iraqi people are better off with US there trying to help them build a Democracy than with Saddam Hussein's goons working on people's genitals with electric carving knives. But no, Dean can't even admit that because Bush is at the helm and that would mean giving him the credit he deserves. The fact that a hack like Dean is a serious candidate for President just shows that the Dems are still a bunch of McGovernites at heart.
Woo.
The form processing and building thingy for my CMS is basically done. What's nice is that it is in no way dependent upon my CMS, so anyone can use it without having to use my whole CMS. I think it may be the best way to write and process HTML forms that has ever been created! Mwa ha ha ha.
That's a heavy claim, so later today I'll post code examples and ask for feedback.
Jim has some benchmarks of his CMS/weblogging system comparing performance when using the filesystem as the data store vs. using MySQL as the data store.
These numbers skew greater and greater towards the database as the number of items increases. And, in the one place that the filesystem wins, the operation being performed is so un-time-consuming in general, that the increase in the speed of the filesystem doesn't amount to much.
Benchmarks are crap, for the most part. They don't really mean a whole lot, unless they represent the exact cases in which you will be using the functions being tested. However, in this case, they DO represent exactly what I will be doing.
What does this mean? Inklog will no longer use the file system as its main method of data storage.
John Hawkins: The US Is Obviously The Most Benevolent World Power In The History Of The Planet. Short and sweet explanation of why I and other clear-thinking people think the US is a great and decent country.
Via Ronaldo, I'm now checking out The Hacker's Diet. I'm much more interested in the exercise part of the program than the diet part of the program. I don't have a problem with weight. I simply don't eat that much, and I'm 5'2" and last time I weighed myself I was 113 pounds. My problem is my energy level. I have no energy, and my sleep schedule is so erratic that I can't really call it a schedule.
He makes an interesting argument that makes it sound just plain dumb not to exercise (assuming you want to live longer and feel better), and he's right. He also has the right perspective about exercise programs -- you need instant feedback to keep motivated. Well, maybe some people don't, but I think that's a good principle in general. Anyway, I'd like to give his exercise plan a try. One nice thing is that it starts so small that it'll really feel like you're not doing anything. Then hopefully as you move up, the positive effects are obvious enough that it makes it worth it to move to the next level.
Here's a great Steven Den Beste article. I haven't read the whole thing because it's fairly long - I'm going to print it out and read it before sleep.
Thursday, April 24, 2003
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Quantum physics and free will
I knew you were going to say that....
Tom Massey: Mar 15, 9:26pm