August, 13, 2005 archives

the los angeles central library is recruiting more docents for their library tours. there are orientation meetings on saturday, august 27, and wednesday, september 14. it requires six weeks of training.

i haven’t been on the library tour yet. i need to check it out. i have heard good things about it.

stefan esser dissects one tip in a bad article about php, but is merciful in leaving the others alone. one thing you’ll note if you line up this second article with the first article is that not only are the tips not very good, the author can’t count to ten.

and on the useful-php-news front, andrei’s unicode work* has landed in the php development tree, and rasmus sparked a long discussion of other php6 features. the perennially lost cause of trying to rename functions and change their argument order resurfaces, of course, but it doesn’t look like anyone is taking it all that seriously.

the race is now on between perl6 and php6.

• other people have been involved, i’m sure. i just don’t know who they are.

the tofu festival was really cool, and the tofu tostadas were as good as promised. if you’re really nice to me, i’ll share the recipe.

the picture of these silent wind chimes really doesn’t do them justice. you need to see them spinning and catching the light to really get the full effect.

one of the things in the big tofu cookbook we got with the pre-festival package was a section on various dairy-replacement recipes that used tofu — and one of them was for tofu mayonnaise. real mayonnaise is already dairy-free. there was also a tofu pancake recipe that called for pancake mix. people who use pancake mix deserve a boot to the head.