links for 2008-01-29

Good tips for attending a gathering. Some are ones I’ve been practicing for a while and they work well.

“The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin – only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!”

“We have posted pics of some truly messy data center cabling in the past, but this time we figured it was time to do the opposite: Show how some people have managed to organize cables into something close to art.”

I’m going to download this and try it out next week.

“That free muffin at the restaurant or the lollipop at the barber or the call from the Realtor a week after the house is sold and contracts are signed and the movers have left… believe it or not, it matters.” Amen.

Odd AdSense match in Gmail, but I like Spam, so I might have to try it.

“…most perl programs will run without modification even if they do advanced things such as database connectivity, file system modification or network programming.” Unless you depend on the CPAN, which is always a huge crapshoot.