iamcal.com Since May 2000

the people's hero of translucent plastic and irritating error noises has cancer. well, that sucks.

after shutting down their sms bidback service in the uk earlier this year, ebay have launched a new sms bidding service. shame i'm not in the uk any more. and that i already hjave too many sun and sgi boxes.

wikiverse describes itself as "an up-to-date high speed static mirror of Wikipedia". it's currently soliciting linkage from all sorts of sites. i wonder if it's wikipedia endorsed. i suspect not. spam seems way too tacky for wikipedia.

a world of sql-related headaches today. while searching for an answer, i came across this nice explanation of joins in mysql - detailing multiple left joins, which is handy stuff.

span looks to be the first fully featured language built on the parrot vm, and so marks a big milestone in parrot's evolution. leo's python work is coming along too, with an AST generator posted this weekend. parrot is getting closer to the elusive 1.0

best domain ever? team fishcake. genius

a genius idea - a sock subscription service so that you never have to worry about buying socks again. what a great idea.

a live-journal-type teen-angst-girl started a use perl; jounral, thinking it was a general journal site. funny stuff

this guy/girl has done something nice with flickr - illustrating a 58 part story by picking out a keyword from each piece of the story, searching for a photo, then posting that part of the story as a comment on the photo, joining them together with links.

lea pointed me at this amazing infomercial. what. the. fuck.