Here I'll be collecting links relating to my Gentoo install:
It's weird to find out by reading about it on the Internet that you've had a package waiting outside your door for a few hours and didn't know it.
Hey, Newegg.com does an excellent job of packing hard drives. Very secure. Plus, they must have great turnover. My hard drive was manufactured on June 27, 2004. I think it came from Thailand, so it can't have been sitting in a warehouse too long.
Time to download Gentoo 
You can overload method calls and property accesses in PHP 5. But it doesn't seem there's a way to overload array indexing so you can make an object behave like an array or dictionary. I'd love to see that become possible in PHP 5.1.
However, realistically, it's probably a total mess if you want to do that thoroughly. By thoroughly I mean that an object can behave completely like an array and can have all the array functions applied to it, including being sortable, being able to make current, next, prev (etc.) calls on it, do set differences, unions, and intersections on it, do slicing, and on and on. PHP's array type is so overloaded that making an object behave like a built-in array is probably pretty hairy.
However, I'd still like to be able to hand something an object and have other code not care whether it's actually an array or not, at least for indexing into it. For instance, say some function takes an array now -- I'd like to be able to replace that with an array-like-object that's built lazily and implements an iterator.
Python does this -- it allows you to provide array-like access to an object. How does it handle all the cases? I want this in PHP!
Update: Here's how Python does it. That's not so bad. PHP would need a little more because arrays in PHP maintain a current index as well as remember the order of insertion.
Investigators Concluded Shelby Leaked Message (washingtonpost.com)
Federal investigators concluded that Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Minutes after a classified Senate Select Committee on Intelligence meeting, this jerk immediately started blabbing to the press:
Specifically, Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged the information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing
Fox News rightly chose not to air the material, but right after speaking to Fox Shelby blabbed again to CNN, who immediately broadcast the message.
I just started writing a long post discussing how weblog comment timestamps should be handled, but I think Dunstan has shown the definitive way (modulo differences merely in style) to do it. There's not really much more to say. I'm going to adopt something similar here.
lgf: Kerry's Foreign Policy Adviser: Send Nuclear Fuel to Iran
From JohnKerry.com:
Iran claims that its nuclear program is only to meet its domestic energy needs. John Kerry's proposal would call their bluff by organizing a group of states to offer Iran the nuclear fuel they need for peaceful purposes and take back the spent fuel so they cannot divert it to build a weapon. If Iran does not accept this offer, their true motivations will be clear.
As if Iran's motivations aren't clear already!! Unbelievable.
Also see this from earlier.
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