- How to do web services in PHP via NuSOAP (yes, I actually did some work);
- How to ship a tiger to Canada (from the U.S.A.);
- How atheists can be similar to Christians and other religious types.
Actually, I think the second one missed a trick. Everyone who’s ever read Calvin and Hobbes knows how partial tigers are for tuna sandwiches, which would have made the whole procedure easier and possibly safer.
When I came home I was greeted with some masterpieces from the children. L had come across a box with packing peanuts in, and these were used instead of Happy Mais to make: an eagle (L), a more detailed eagle (K), and a log cabin (J).
I also realised tonight, looking at Katy’s blog browsing over her shoulder, that WordPress blogs are like Latex used to be when I was in college. You could always tell when someone’s dissertation or thesis had been produced on Latex as they all had a similar look to them. You could try hard and make them a bit different, but the idea was the defaults were pretty much OK, so why bother changing them? It’s a big like that with WordPress blogs, particularly if you’re as uninspired / lazy as I’ve been with the layout of this one!
despite it being my last day in the office, I did quite a bit of work as well. I have even more to do tomorrow, and some to do on Sunday. Some of the work today was training me for the work I’ve to do on Sunday…
. . . wheras with Bob’s posts I do lots of pausing , breathing, re-reading, smiling and shaking my head . . .
I always thought the look of this blog was just a temporary measure, no? 😉
LaTeX is supposed to make us concentrate on content rather than form, but then most users I know (including me, though am a little rusty now) seem to \emph{obsess} about the form\ldots
The third one raises an interesting point, at least the writer interviewed in the article does. Both the New Atheists and religious people are striving towards a utopia. The New Atheists are working towards a future where superstition and irrationality are banished, and reason and science are in charge. The religious are trying to make heaven on earth (however they describe them).
But, what progress is there towards this? We have scientific and technological progress, where new things can be explained and new things can be built. But this shouldn’t be confused with society as a whole (which is a temptation the New Atheists have to fight, I expect).
We still have violence, hatred, greed and so on – the technological wonder of the airliner (which is possibly an environmental disaster) was the means of the 11th September attacks, and the computers and software at the heart of modern banking allowed greedy bankers to engineer the latest credit crunch very efficiently indeed. Food for thought, anyway.