Excellent experiment! Anyone wanna play? We don’t have that much of advertising here in Cyprus, but I guess even what we have is enough for the game. I guess how advertisers and police will react to some people practising it.
Month: September 2004
Yet more scanned pictures
I have added yet more scanned pictures to the site. Firstly, family tree was updated with many many pictures. Mostly, these are Olga’s relatives (father, mother, sisters, etc). More to come.
I have also dug up photographic documentation of one of the last times I was doing sports. That was back in 2001 when I went rolling with Svetka for a few days in a row. Some pictures of that are here. I have learnt an important lesson that time – if you are forced to do sports, surround yourself with beautiful ladies, because they will make your life easier. Even if they will be your future wive’s friends. :)
Problems with scanner in Fedora Linux Core 2
If you had a scanner which was working fine in Fedora Linux Core 1, but stopped after upgrading to Core2, then you might be interested in this bug. It did help some people. But it didn’t help me.
I also found this link, which makes it possible to use iscan. Xsane still doesn’t work, although sane-find-scanner reports the device correctly. This document didn’t help any.
Picture of the day
Olga and I went to Kurium beach today, where I shot few pictures. There were few guys flying on the parachutes, but they were too far away and I was too lazy to get closer. Probably, I will revisit them one day.
PHP IN CONTRAST TO PERL
There are plenty of holy wars on the web that argue about superiority of PHP over Perl and vice versa. There are many people who prefer PHP, and there are many others who prefer Perl. I am, of course, in the Perl camp. I have programmed both Perl and PHP over some time, and there is no doubt in my head that Perl is way better than PHP as a language. The only point that I like about PHP is the how mod_php works. mod_php is a PHP module for Apache web server, for those who don’t know.
Anyway, back to the subject. I came across an excellent document titled “PHP IN CONTRAST TO PERL“. It summarizes the benefits of Perl compared to PHP nicely and clearly. It also links to a number of other resources on the subject, as well as provides the summary of those resources. Really neat paper and a must read for anyone who has or will have to deal with Perl and/or PHP.