I start my laptop and type “fire” to start firefox, “thunder” to start thunderbird, and “eclipse” to start… err… eclipse.

Nature imagery abounds.

You know you’re a nerd when you stay up 30 more minutes (at 3 in the morning) because you noticed Thunderbird 2.0 is out and you’ve been waiting for tags in Thunderbird for well-nigh eons!

(…and then you go and post it on a blog.)

I have decided that PHP and Python can not be considered real programming languages.

PHP does not have a real array literal. array(element1, element2) does not count. I want two characters that surround an array, not seven!

Python does not have an increment operator. I think += 1 is a common task, and I’m sorry if this doesn’t seem “pythonic”. (”Pythonic” is lame, it seems a way to declare missing features unnecessary while insulting the requester.)

(*goes back to coding in Python*)

I hate me. I stayed up for quite awhile today because I saw something really strange on facebook…

Being who I am, I had to figure out why! I saved the page and started hacking the source to get a minimal test case. After much poking, I figured out that someone used the powers of Unicode for evil. (Check out the fiendish Unicode abusing group…)

This comes after I took a friend’s French project (which was to write a bunch of news articles) and tried to copy the Mercury News’ style. Sadly, she was tired and told me to stop pretty-fying. (I mean, it was only 2 in the morning…) *mutters*

derek: why is everyone IMing me at the same time
me: oh sorry
me: random backoff.
me: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
me: was there a collision again?