Archive for February, 2007

GoToMyPC vs. Copilot

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I’ve heard all the loud radio ads and never gave it much thought until I needed to fix my mother-in-law’s computer from 400 miles away.
I tried Fog Creek Software’s Copilot. It was usable in the first fifteen minutes or so, but kinda slow. Then, it got slower… and s-l-o-w-e-r. Then, it froze. Trying their performance […]

PHP Cracks Me Up Sometimes

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

This should probably go under “it’s really funny right now, but will seem very uninteresting tomorrow.”

FRIEND: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-writable.php
ME: haha
FRIEND: yeah
ME: is_that_what_i_think_it_is()
FRIEND: is_that_really_what_i_think_it_is()
ME: aliased to is_this_what_i_really_want()
FRIEND: i looked it up real quick because someone had the wrong spelling in it in our code
ME: which returns constats, including IM_NOT_SURE_WHY_DONT_U_ASK_PERL_THAT
ME: haha that’s a funny blog write up
ME: i […]