ever since the oedipus days, leaders have fallen because of their hubris (i.e. arrogance). our current national leader, george bush, has demonstrated extreme arrogance thoughout his term, and i'm certain he will pay for it one day. and that one day might been soon given this current "i am allowed to spy on you without a warrant talk". anyone who has taken a US history class knows that this is not true.

congress recognized the need for spying and setup a court which could convene on a moments notice and give a search warrant when the executive branch needed one. this court has been used many thousands of times and has disallowed only 4 petitiions. still, bush decided he didn't need approval from anyone.

I forgot to announce that my slides from the Amsterdam Drupalcon presentation are online. The topic is unit testing in Drupal. For documentation, see the simpletest docs at drupal.org

I just came across Simplyhired. Oh my gosh. A stunning improvement on job search. If you like Simplyhired, you'll also like Sidestep, which is a fine way to find good rates on flights, hotels, etc.

And who wouldn't love The Instructables. Instructables is a venue for showing what you make and how others can make it.

Can anyone explain #13 below? Don't Stop Believin That is one of the most cheesy annoying tunes of all time. If you like that crap, your probably also like the despicable Africa by Toto

from music-post.com iTunes Charts

iTunes Top 25 Songs
iTunes Music Store: Today's Top 25 Songs

    * 1. Just the Girl - The Click Five
    * 2. Pon de Replay (Radio Edit) - Rihanna
    * 3. Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy
    * 4. Feel Good Inc. (Album Crossfade) - Gorillaz
    * 5. Don't Cha (featuring Busta Rhymes) [Radio Edit] - The Pussycat Dolls & Busta Rhymes
    * 6. You and Me - Lifehouse
    * 7. Don't Lie - Black Eyed Peas
    * 8. Cool - Gwen Stefani
    * 9. Beverly Hills - Weezer
    * 10. Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
    * 11. Best of You - Foo Fighters
    * 12. Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects
    * 13. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
    * 14. Behind These Hazel Eyes - Kelly Clarkson
    * 15. Helena - My Chemical Romance
    * 16. Shake It Off - Mariah Carey
    * 17. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
    * 18. These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Jessica Simpson
    * 19. Let Me Hold You - Bow Wow featuring Omarion
    * 20. Axel F (Radio Mix) - Crazy Frog
    * 21. These Words (I Love You, I Love You) - Natasha Bedingfield
    * 22. My Humps - Black Eyed Peas
    * 23. Seasons of Love (From the Motion Picture RENT) - Cast Of Rent
    * 24. Holiday (Faded Ending) - Green Day
    * 25. Collide - Howie Day

I didn't realize until today that Tuesday was the 10 year anniversary of jerry's death, and the end of the original grateful dead. 10 years ago, I attended a vigil in center city phildelphia and sang tunes, and hugged, and thanked jerry for all the music. We strummed and sang a killer China Cat => I Know you Ryder => Franklin's.

Although the band keeps playing on, lets pause to remember one of our heroes and leaders. I've learned a lot from Jerry's mischievous and loving ways.

Link of the day: Annotated Grateful Dead lyrics

Update: on shared web hosting accounts, the cache is almost always disabled and customer has no permission to enable it since it is a global variable. Bummer. I guess this is why people go for Virtual Private Server hosting accounts.

Here is a lovely semi-technical article describing MySQL's unique and bestest feature - the query cache. This speeds up SELECT statements in a big way. Mandatory for high volume Drupal sites.

Overcoming Procrastination Through the Pull Method

Some sage advice which understands why we procrastinate and offers some solutions.

nice lighting in a photo makes all the difference. and there is no better light than sunlight. here is my 15 month old girl, mali.

The $4.7 Trillion Pyramid (Harpers.org)

Social Security, formerly the third rai of American politics, has now been trod upon, in rather dramatic fashion, by George W. Bush. Given that the maneuver is both stupid and unnecessary, one must ask why. After all, the program%u2019s alleged deficiencies, if there are any, will not manifest themselves until at least 2018. This is not quite the same as worrying about the sun's eventual collapse into a black hole, but for most politicians a problem that lies thirteen years in the future is nearly the same thing. Clearly all is not what it seems.

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet

A superb article about a chef/engineer working at Moto, a high end restaurant in Chicago USA. I'd love to eat there.