Here's a presentation on Flickr and PHP (PDF) (to read), via Christian Langreiter.
Ok, reading:
- "PHP 4 doesn’t have good a XML parser" - hey!
- "Normalised data is for sissies" - heh
- "Lots of mailers are retarded" - yeah!
- "PHP isn’t so great at being a daemon... Leaks memory like a sieve" Damn.
- "Programmers mainly build tools for other programmers"
I think one of my naïve habits I'm starting to shed is the following. I always used to assume that people who argue with you really want to get at the truth. So, I'd always try to be really helpful, ask them to flesh things out, and try extra hard to understand what they might be saying and explain as much as I could to make my position clear. I've realized that that's often a waste of time since they're probably not interested anyway.
The Gweilo Diaries: That's What We're Afraid of Senator:
John Kerry has pledged to "hunt down and capture terrorists . . . with the same energy . . . I put into going after the Viet Cong and trying to win for our country."
So, now I finally know what the Kerry plan is -- throwing in the towel after four months, labeling US combatants as war criminals and pow-wowing with Osama bin Laden in Paris.
Ouch. It hurts because it's true.
Security Council members deny meeting Kerry - The Washington Times:
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred.
At the second presidential debate earlier this month, Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council.
[Kerry said (at different times)], "I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them... with the entire Security Council, and we spent a couple of hours talking..."
Asked whether the international body had any records of Mr. Kerry sitting down with the whole council, a U.N. spokesman said that "our office does not have any record of this meeting."
A U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the Security Council's actions in fall of 2002 said that he was not aware of any meeting Mr. Kerry had with members of the panel.
An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations remarked: "We were as surprised as anyone when Kerry started talking about a meeting with the Security Council."
(emphasis mine)
Update: Roger Simon says it's Christmas in Cambodia all over again (which is what I was thinking), and asks: "Is John Kerry a sociopath?", which is something I've wondered myself.
Of course, John Kerry has a history of secret meetings.
Update: Many people anticipating this story but not knowing what it was about had a similar reaction upon reading the article. Lorie writes:
Quite a few Polipundit readers are disappointed that this story is another one about Kerry lying. I guess when it is an everyday occurrence it ceases to be big news.
I'm seeing similar statements elsewhere. Sigh.
Update: Ha! Charles has what's probably unbeatable for best headline about this: Kerry Cheated on the Global Test.
Update: Lorie at PoliPundit has another quote from Kerry talking about how he met with the security council, and writes "I guess this really is another “Cambodia” moment.".
Monday, October 25, 2004
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