complich8′s journal

by the oil companies, no less. Hooray for record profits! Yay for concentration of wealth in the hands of the already unimaginably wealthy! Not like this is really news ….

I really was. But then I remembered. Yakitate!! Japan is more interesting than writing. AHHH-FUUUUU-ROOOOO!!!!!!

That’s fine. Ok. I get it. Yeah. Now stop." … is what I’d like to say to the ever-pressing march of things that keep me busy. So I guess I should catch up on the last week or so since I last managed to squeeze in a post edgewise.

So I was just looking into the wordpress api stuff, trying to help a guy in #wordpress figure out how to do something, and I got distracted, leading me ultimately to the topic at hand…

Thought of the minute: Is the practice of science at odds with pure pragmatism? (This tangent brought to you by: This article, and the following lines from it. The dictionary definition of “engineering” is the application of scientific and mathematical principles toward practical ends. That is what most pro- grammers try to do. We apply [...]