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2007

Christmas rocks!

This year my wife went crazy and got me a new camera. Actually its kinda a gift for both of us, as we’ll both be using it - but anyways, its a totally cool gift! Gotta love that! :-D
 

One-Click patent is still old and obvious

Guess “USPTO”:http://uspto.gov/ has _some_ common sense as they have just “reaffirmed that the 1-Click Claim is ‘Old And Obvious’":http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/25/1933206. They should just abandon software patents altogether, as they are “bad”:http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html - which is old news, and equally obvious.

Happy Birthday Perl!

has it that this fine december day, Perl5Porters is giving us “Perl 5.10”:http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.10.0/, the best Perl 5 yet. I hope its true, because 5.10 contains loads of fun and useful…

Is numeric?

table on an Oracle 8i database, and I wanted to select only those tuples that contain numbers. Had I used PostgreSQL I could just have used a regex, which is nice and Perl like. But this is Oracle…
 

I just finished installing Movable Type 4!

Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!