iamcal.com Since May 2000

a delightful tale of possible death-by-ants

the helios display is so fucking cool. that's the future right there

white lint is the best kind of lint because in large quantities (e.g. in the tumble drier filter after drying tea towels) it looks like snow. discuss.

dinner with nick finck and dave shea (pronounced 'shay' according to stew - crazy canadians). nice guys. i didn't realise dave was in vancouver.

matrix revolutions in irc speak: Smith: "I R teh Ubermensch! U R 0wn3d w/ my awesome Will!" Neo: "No! Because I will refute teh diabilical existential angst w/ kung fu!" Smith: "Argh! Now I must stand in the rain and shake my fist at you! Why? Why?" Neo: "Ha ha! I win by losing! I R teh Jesus!" The end.

bad spelling can be really addictive.

since i don't do any kind of blogrolling or links section, i should probably link to my regular reads from time to time: [pixel](http://www.pixel.tc/) [kallese](http://kallese.blogspot.com/) [arya](http://kflood.net/arya/) [becca](http://alltheprettywords.com/) [su](http://www.stonesoup.co.nz/superverygood/)

new on the code front is fileman, written ages ago for some aborted client work, now released for free.

the new release of phpmyadmin has another patch form me in it (go me! etc)

if you have some time to kill, read through the p-p-p-powerbook scam-scam [pdf, via grim]

a periodic table of the perl 6 operators. sterling (if scary) work. it would be interesting to do the same for perl 5 and compare. uri said: "are you going to predict any new operators based on missing boxes as mendeleev did?". maybe this is the way to organically design feature sets ;)

the breedster people have released a bunch of diagrams, animations and thoughts about the breedster experiment. very interesting stuff.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo! dr who and billie piper do not mix.