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Since I have a webcam on my desk, now I get to watch an employee’s car for people keying it. Apparently someone is. Maybe I’ll catch me some key-ers.

So I was reading the new September Playboy issue and came across this joke:

Scientific research recently revealed evidence that female hormones are present in beer.
A group of twenty men were given six pints of beer each.
One hundred percent of men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn’t drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apoligize when wrong.

On another note, this issue also has an excellent interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google’s head hanchos), not to mention a stunning centerfold, some neat drink tips, and even “Women of the Olympics”. Oh yeah, and I’m only halfway through it.

Wow, I finally took the plunge and upgraded my Movable Type installation to version 3.0. Many visual improvements, although a rebuild of my site seems to take a wee bit longer than on MT 2.661. Fixed the comment templates too. We’ll see how this pans out.

Wow. I didn’t realize allowing MT to trackback would get so much of a response for my rant! Brian answered a comment, and now I feel retarded. Maybe next time I feel like trackbacking, I need to re-read stuff before I comment on it, and maybe do a little bit of research while im at it.

I’m gonna have to hide my face at the next YAPC.. good thing its close to a year from now

Edit: Sorry brian d foy. See comments.

brian d foy writes in this article, O’Reilly Network: Perl versus PHP 5, that he’s seen a lot of complaints about how hard it is to install modules in Perl. Now either he doesn’t use Perl, or maybe he just doesn’t know.

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Module::Name'

That’s it. PHP doesn’t have a vast module network. I don’t hate PHP, but sooo many security issues, im ALWAYS upgrading mod_php. Perl is my language of choice. I’ve used python/php/tcl and I always come back to Perl.

Scott has an interesting rant on using coupons and getting refills.. Although I’ve seen people save $30 on a $100 grocery ticket, I can understand having to wait in line, especially when you got a 33 pound squirming baby on your left arm!

Read More: No coupons and No refills PLEASE!!!

Man I’m bored. It’s Wednesday, although it feels like a Monday, I had jury duty yesterday, they kept me until 7pm, but luckily I didn’t get picked.

We got ANOTHER new coffee pot from Aramark today, when will this insanity end???

(We’ve been getting coffee machines like crazy lately, the dumb women who work here keep putting 1.5 packs of coffee in the machine and it seems to be the most important thing here at work now are the damn coffee machines!)

Jeez, I keep forgetting to write about LinuxWorld.. First of all, sitting on a bed and using the laptop gets very uncomfortable after about 20 minutes in one position.

The weather has been great here.. high 50′s at night and high 60′s in the daytime.. The conference has been great, got so much free stuff, im going to have to get a box for all this stuff and check it as baggage. HP Announced this morning that they’ll be selling linux laptops pre-installed with SUSE 9.1. I thought that was pretty neat. After two days of drawings, I have yet to win the Sharp Zarus. One more chance tomorrow.. Intel had a pretty cool party last night, they had a guy with a chainsaw doing an ice sculpture of an “intel inside” logo.

I happened apon a sign that said “Gentoo Community Meeting” which was excellent, cause I got to sit around and have a beer with the Gentoo dev team and discuss current problems and upcoming ideas for about two hours.

Today I walked about 4 miles round trip to see the ‘Painted Ladies’ which is the victorian houses in the begining of the “Full House” TV show. It was pretty neat, used almost a whole roll of film on them.

Had some excellent chinese food for dinner with a “Fat Tire” which went suprisingly well together.

Anyways, tomorrow is the last day of the conference, then im back to Houston.

Made it to San Francisco this afternoon for Linux World. The weather is real nice, about 68 degrees right now.. The hotel is decent, but the wireless seems to be flaky, it’s acting like a linksys router or something.. every minute or so it drops me. I’ve got the same issues in linux and windows with both my broadcom b/g minipci and my orinoco gold.. so im using my orinoco with the externa mag mount antenna.. good thing i brought it, found another access point not owned by the hotel, which provides a much more stable connection, just a weak signal.

Walked around downtown SFA this afternoon, I ate at a subway. It reminds me a lot of NY, but not as busy. LOTS of homeless people, it was kind of scary with my camera on my hip, had to hold it so it wouldn’t get jacket.. I ended up wandering into the Apple store with the glass staircase. It was pretty neat. I got a pic in B&W of the staircase.

Nothing on TV, just making sure I’ve got everything on the laptop for tomorrow morning. I think I’m gonna go to bed pretty early tonight and get some rest so I can be up early tomorrow.