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O sweet perfume!

How my heart trembles to your touch.

My lover blooms,

and as a butterfly

I must find her scent,

return its strange caress.

For welcome visitors from this comment on Sheffield Forum. You want to see Boot the cat shagging his lucky lady, who am I to refuse?

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I invite discussion on the future of Microsoft Internet Explorer. If things keep going the way they are, not only will I not care about IE, the figures will give me a reason not to.

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The may be operator. A syntax for expressing a conditional cause chain or known sequence of expressions likely to resolve to a single value. Akin to the SQL function COALESCE().

PHP example

Expression without may be operator:

if( !isset( $id ) )
   if( isset( $_COOKIE['id'] ) )
      $id = $_COOKIE['id'];
   else
      if( isset( $_POST['id'] ) )
         $id = $_POST['id'];
      else
         if( isset( $_GET['id'] ) )
            $id = $_GET['id'];
         else
            $id = -1;

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For a while, I have had this nagging doubt as to the reliability of my e-mail service. I get e-mail, from all my known addresses, but I’m never entirely sure I’m getting everything I’m sent. If anyone is getting email sent to me bounced back, please let me know here.

I pay for my email. Not much but I do pay, and I pay for a 100% reliable service or not at all. I suspect my current service is not 100% but have little to no evidence for it. Plans to change are afoot. I’m sorry this is still an ongoing problem 2 years down the line. I’m not confident messing around with e-mail systems.

If you have mailed me, cheque, if bounced, let me know here, please.

Update 22:50 Hotmail was junking all my libertini e-mails. That solves one mystery.

All that frantic nonsense I’ve been writing over the past week has come to to fruition. It’s only a minor change, but this publication is now proudly powered by Liberated Wordpress 1.5.2, my derivative of WordPress 1.5.2.

If you are interested in what has changed, please read this raunchy, fully-animated, omni-nubile sexual position catalogue.

The project was partly inspired by a desire to begin building a knowledge base of educational material from which aspiring (and expiring) programmers can learn and laugh. I had never before seen a complete, detailed record of a real software development project from start to finish and realised that maybe no-one else had either. I decided to write one.

The result, my post Liberating WordPress with its many, intricately detailed comments are just the beginning and must yet be sculpted into a useful tool. There’s a lot of word surgery for starters.

I welcome discussion with any who wish to help me get started. I’m going to teach people how not to code!

Are you still with me?

Jax at her brilliant best. Wow. The definitive answer to the question “why blog?”

This is my 200^th post, by the way.

Yes, the Richard Dawkins who craps on about evolution and thinks “morality” is a dirty word.

Mr. Darkens, please stop darkening our world with your semi-scientific, neo-Fascist humans are genetically programmed to obey authority nonsense. If you don’t, I’ll construct and publish scientific falsifications of any and all evolutionary theories on which you have depended. I shall not address them to you. I shall publish directly to the lay in terms they will understand. When people think climate change, I’ll make them think of all the hot air you generate.

If you are truly a scientist, why behave like a preacher? Crawl back under the rocks with the other bugs. That’s where all the evidence is to be found, after all.