A Life Without Compunction

Thoughts by Dan on a myriad of topics.

20 Worst Foods in America

The Worst is:
Outback Steakhouse Aussie Cheese Fries with Ranch Dressing
Coming in with 2900 calories, 182 grams of fat & 240 grams of carbs!
The 20 Worst Foods in America

Back in the Saddle

So we are back and getting back into work and life on the exact opposite side of the world, California. It’s good to be back, see old friends. India was a great experience. A lot of folks have asked me how India was. I think in a nutshell it was a good experience and reminder. [...]

I Hate Cricket

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It’s official. It’s the only thing they show on sports channels here, I was looking for a good game of basketball or something on ESPN to kick back with tonight and on all 3 major sports channels there’s cricket. They are even replaying a game from 2001. And what’s worse is when you get Test [...]

Falling Like Flies

I’m saddened to see the latest announcement on Live the Creed, that it will no longer be updated and is closing it’s door to new posts. This was a great site and a really good idea come up with by Mike and Justin! Thanks to those who blogged there — your posts (though infrequent) will [...]

In a Pickle over PECL

I’ve been trying to compile the gnupg PECL extension on a live server and have had no end of trouble. The limited documentation that accompanies the majority of PECL extensions is rather annoying. In the end what worked for me was compiling the PECL extension statically into PHP.
The gnupg extensions is quite nice and a [...]

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