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silly silly george - disambiguate is in the dictionary.

'vancouver' magazine (yeah, snappy title) has photos of the awesome-looking millenium line skytrain stations. the station shown (brentwood) is probably worth checking out in person, and i intend to when i get the time.

flickrwatch: i am not a nugget

i got asked - "i hoped you would have a solution for reading in more than 4kb from about 20 set cookies with 4kb each (~80kb)" and i said... you could (possibly) do it thus: create some kind of rewritten script that allowed you to create pages in virtual folders and set cookies on them at will. set each cookie to within the container folder, then use javascript and iframes to load cookies from all of the pages. e.g. have these pages: /cookies/1/, /cookies/2/, /cookies/3/, etc. and store 4kb worth of data in the cookies of each. this may work, but it may not. would probably be browser dependant.

the newly launched php wtf seem to be struggling for content - maybe there's not as many bad php programmers as one would imagine, or (as i find that hard to believe), the people running the site are finding bad code tough to spot ;)

retarded annoyance of the day - people who insist on using the dollar sign for the 's' in microsoft. YOU ARE RETARDED. so what, other software companies aren't out to make money? somehow microsoft is apart from everyone else in their general aims. fucking idiots.

the flickr mt plugin is pretty awesome, using not only Flickr::API, but also my XML::Parser::Lite::Tree and XPath modules. code resuse strikes again!

statcounter looks pretty cool. i'm giving it a go on one site to see how it works out. i've been looking for a good stats package for a while.

i'm working on timezone stuff again, and came across this great timezone faq. some timezone stuff is really terrifying/retarded from a programming pov - "China observes one time zone UTC/GMT + 08:00 - which makes this time zone uncommonly wide. In the extreme western part of China the sun is at its highest point at 15:00, in the extreme eastern part - at 11:00."

this large pdf from tfl shows the possible london tube map in 2016. interesting stuff