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How things stand in Iraq

I’ve been against the war in Iraq from the start. After we went in, I thought we ought to stay in there and clean up our mess, that we couldn’t leave the country the way it was — in shambles. But now, things are so bad, for everyone around, that I have no clue what [...]

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Object-Oriented PHP: Concepts, Techniques, and Code by Peter Lavin

Can a single book get web designers to start writing better, reusable PHP code? Peter Lavin makes a go of it in Object Oriented PHP, and it comes out pretty darn well.
The gist of the book is this: would you rather write code that does the same sort of stuff over, and over, and over, [...]

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The world wouldn’t be the same without Romania

This video will show you why Romania is a wonderful and inventive country. Yes, it was sponsored by some beer companies, but it’s very nicely put together, and the things it talks about are all true. The subjects presented in the video are listed below in the order of appearance:

The invention of the fountain pen, [...]

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Google Translation is fantastic!

The Google Research blog has a great post about their latest development: Arabic translation. From what I understand, it’s hard to translate back and forth between English and Arabic because of the different sentence structures, but they’ve done it!
Thanks to Google Translation and the power of the Internet, now you can read my site in [...]

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