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 great idea, but there’s got to be a better way to have native GPG support in PHP.
There are still email subscription forms on prominent sites that don’t consider a .info domain a valid TLD.
Here’s a form on the Fujitsu site that exhibits this behaviour.
For a TLD that has been around since 2001, it seems like folks should be able to consider them valid by now!
My Mom left the following comment on my blog and I totally agree with her:
Dad and I read the article about Mother Theresa. It is sad that they are trying to smear a person that tried to change the world around her and helped others. It shows that she is human just like us. She had confided her heart just as we would if we are down and weary and it seems the Lord is far away. Everyone goes through that and it is a human weakness. “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Those are the words from Paul in the Bible, Romans chapter 7. The whole chapter is him expressing his human weakness. Mother Theresa sharing her heart and her innermost feelings shows she needed someone to pour out to, she has been pouring out to others all her life. These people that are writing negative things about her should ask themselves the question: What have I done in my life to help others? Have I done anything good?” They don’t have anything better to do than to spread words that smear others. But as it is often said, “life is like a boomerang, things you did to other will surely come back to you!” That goes for those busy bodies.
If you didn’t see the article she’s referring to, I linked it in my del.icio.us links. It can be found here: CNN: Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith
I was looking at CNN’s Special Report page where they have the pictures of those who were killed during the horrible shooting at Virginia Tech university. It got me thinking. The loss of life is so tragic because that person had a father, mother, husband or wife, brother/sister, friends, maybe even children. And in one second they are gone. I definitely feel for those who lost someone close that Monday morning, and my thoughts and prayers are with them.
Now while I have you thinking about that. Think what if that was your loved one, feel that pain? It hurts doesn’t it?
Now think of those who live in war and domestic conflict zones around the world, where people are being randomly killed from roadside bombs, stray fire or deliberate bombings. — Imagine if that was your loved one, your child.
No one should have to live in that kind of fear. The tragedies that befell Virginia Tech that fateful Monday are but a small taste at home of the real tragedy that is continuing worldwide. Places where when you kiss your kids before they go off to school, you live in fear they may not come back home alive.
“It’s not just one life, it’s somebody’s loved one.” - Listen to the rest of this great song sung by a good friend of mine, Marianna Buhring. It drives this point home.
