On a personal note, my boss is in town this week. Haven’t actually met him in person yet, even though I’ve been that the job for about two months, so it’ll be interesting. And it’s possible there will be stuff keeping me around work enough that blogging may be light. I guess we’ll see.
- The Winter Carnival began this weekend with some Holidrizzle. It’s definitely been warm. It looks like this will be the first January since 1990 that we won’t have a single day of below-zero in Minneapolis. Before that? Only once in recorded history (in the 1800s). And with the rain Thursday and Saturday evenings, the snow was just about all gone before last night’s snow, which is awfully we, and looks like it’ll disappear quickly. The spring-like weather feels pretty appropriate if you go shopping, and It’s Not Just Me. Mitch compares trying to get any winter clothing at Target in January to shopping for bread in the old USSR. [press-patch and mitch]
- According to the Daily, Minneapolis looks to say hi to citywide Wi-Fi, and will go with an unnamed private vendor. [daily]
- A US bank bans loans to developers using seized land . BB&T is one of the larger banks in the south-eastern US. There are plenty of other things wrong with BB&T, just as there are with any bank, but good for them in this case. [claire]
- Kirsten’s Secrets of Traveling Revealed!- Part Three talks about food. She’s maybe more restaurant-phobic than I am. My solution to “restaurant food overload” is that I almost always walk through some sort of farmers market in any town I visit. But it takes me a lot longer to overload, and I can even skip the market if there is a decent selection of street vendors in town. And it also reminds me that I should maybe update my travel tips next time I go out of town. I’ve learned a thing or two in the past six years. [kirsten]
- Is it right to attribute PHP’s Insecurity to a Failure of Leadership? I think so. And I agree that
The time for forgiving PHP’s weaknesses are over.
But I’ll probably be voting with my feet. One of the major hurdles in upgrading things on my server is old PHP code that I wrote when I was new to the language. The only headache bigger is all the crap I had to put in place to deal with spam. [holy schmoly] - A little story where The scammer gets scammed! And a guy got to ship a box full of rottweiler poop to Nigeria on the scammer’s dime. Excellent. [boing boing]