The Dodgers won a game! They actually won! Too bad they can’t count on getting 12 hits on their own and three errors from the other team every night.
Via Rob Kaper I ran into this odd story today: Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of PHP, quit because he hates that Israelis are funding the project. Since he wants that country to get nuked, he quit the project.
This makes me wish I could stand PHP, so I’d have reason to kick a few bucks to Zend!
He apparently left his real reason for quitting on a PHP IRC channel (_sniper_ is the name Taskinen apparently goes by on IRC; quote edited for some standards):
<_sniper_> hehehehe..
<_sniper_> all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it….Israel says the resolution was fair.
<_sniper_> hell yeah..
<_sniper_> NUKE ISRAEL!
<_sniper_> I’m so full of that [expletive deleted] country..
<_sniper_> Eye for an eye..I’ll kill one Israel officer for one of ours, is that fair?
<_sniper_> I bet I’ll be hanged for that.
<_sniper_> They kill one of my brother-in-arms-for-peace..I think I’m entitled to kill one of their nazis.
<_sniper_> Hezbollah, where can I enlist?
<_sniper_> FYI: I don’t care at all what anybody thinks about me. I’m going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. [Expletive deleted] you jews.
<_sniper_> I will also quit this project. As long as it’s backed by some Israel company, I don’t want to have anything to do with it.
<_sniper_> Good bye.
<– _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl
Once in a while the Jew haters let slip that their hatred of Zionism is just a symbol something more. In a way we should be thankful that in his rage, Taskinen made that plain.
The Dodgers are starting to lose ugly. Apparently there was a dugout argument during the last loss to San Diego. Grady Little had best do something to keep the team from spinning apart in frustration.
I’m reminded of the Lakers under Frank Hamblen. After Rudy T left midseason, the team sputtered, then collapsed entirely. It was awful, and I’d rather not see it again, though it looks like just that kind of collapse.
American McGee shares a Microsoft horror story:
A few days ago Windows XP on my primary work computer decided that it wasn’t a legal copy. Strange since the copy running on there was pre-installed at the time that the machine was built by Alienware. There used to be a Windows serial number on the back of the machine, but the sticker has since fallen off. What’s worse, as soon as I started receiving the dreaded, “You may be a victim of software piracy…” notices, I also started noticing increased system instability. All of this culminated in what I can only assume was some form of malware infection, a hardware crash (related to my soundcard), and a pretty complete system failure.
His name would make this a perfect Simply American post, heh. Other than that though, you may wonder who cares about American McGee. The trick is that he’s a fairly important guy in the history of computer games:
Look toward the bottom of this screenshot of a new PrBoom feature: a nifty console to display all the stuff doom prints after it runs. McGee was there for Doom 2 and Ultimate Doom, designing maps 2-7, 14, and 22 for the former (yes, he did Dead Simple, to me the most memorable of Doom levels).
What he does will attract attention. Not as much as Carmack or Romero, granted, but some. So this is interesting.
Hoops Hype says that the Mavericks have just about got Devean George signed. Given that he was playing behind even Luke Walton these days, it’s not surprising to me that the injury-prone forward would have to look away from the Lakers this year.
Well he had a good run, even if he didn’t get the championship the year he started alongside O’Neal, Bryant, Payton, and Malone.
“And the Dodgers roll over.” — Vin Scully
Rob Stone is the idiot I quoted earlier, and it was in fact Sid Waddell who’s his partner on the air.
What is this? I turn on the Dodgers/Padres game, and I see it’s 3-3 in the 7th. “Hey, they can win this one,” I think to myself, but NO. When I turned it on, Mike Cameron was down 0-2, but then at 1-2 he hit a three run homer to take a solid San Diego lead.
What is wrong with this team?
I love reducing taxes, so that means I love trade agreements that convince people in Washington to cut taxes on Americans who buy imports.
But upon hearing that the Doha round of WTO negotiations is dead, I’m not bothered. The less the US has to deal with international organizations the better, I say.
After all, while the Doha round has been going on, President Bush has concluded tariff-reducing treaties with at least Singapore, Australia, Morocco, Jordan, and Chile. That’s five separate tax cuts that have gone virtually unheralded.
And the less we fight with Lula over how to treat agriculture in the WTO, the more progress we can make with other countries, and the more import tax cuts we can get through the Senate.
Florian’s on a roll as PrBoom 2.4.3 is out now. Not much from me in this release, though I did add some more touchups to the Mac launcher.