rewiring

the two most important tasks of the day: teaching the boss how to use facebook without allowing any privacy slip-ups, and learning about php web services, SOAP and how flex's interface with them is only sometimes* self-explanatory. and then i wasted an hour or two because the html i drew from the database was corrupt and i was certain the error was on my side :P

* for the longest time i thought i was sending invalid data, when in fact i was rendering it incorrectly - using the text attribute instead of the htmlText attribute. this isn't documented anywhere useful - you have to be aware of its existence if you need to find out about it :/

the evening coffee session went from "isn't everyone some type of bisexual?" to watching responses to 2 girls 1 cup. i mentioned that i hadn't clicked a link i'd been sent a few days ago to the 1 guy 1 jar video, and someone told me what it was about...

the kinder's response: "how gay would it sound if I said that I wanted totalwaste to be that guy in the movie?"
my retort: not so gay, i just heard what it's about and it sounds... painful. how gay would it sound if i said that i wanted the kinder to be the jar in that movie?
for whoever's seen it: i win ;)

the pretty girl from the rollerblading group added me as a friend on facebook - i have yet to see something come out of this sort of event, but i retain hope :P
speaking of which, i spent the evening with singer, learning to replace guitar strings and then going out for burgers. you know, there's a lot to be said for really enjoying each other's company, and it makes me wonder if that isn't the way to go.

there's probably no right answer to that.

on a completely different note: i suck with antibiotics. especially so many of them - this time i forgot about the middle ones, and then only took one when i should've had two... dammit. i'm popping all these pills and i'm not even enjoying it...

the seventh episode of the prisoner is brilliant.

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the rest of the vegan argument:

the vegan checklist - rather explicit for a pro-vegan source.

there's b12 controversy??? not according to the vegans!

the most important thing to note is the vegan philosophy of "killing is wrong". yeah, because overpopulation is right :/
i'm amused at the irony of being against milk extraction when it's necessary for the survival of the cows, and especially of the idea that, somehow, by not eating meat the animals will be treated better. that's the lamest excuse for not doing something useful (like running a farm that treats its animals well) that i've ever heard.

the following is neutral, useful information for the whole family:

on b12 absorption

deficiency symptoms and fun facts

b12: the numbers

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chromium os fast boot: i dig it! only they should've coached the dude on how to speak fluidly, otherwise this is quite impressive. in response to a pro-open source comment i received regarding it -
don't get too excited - remember that the "perfect" model is neither capitalist nor socialist, but a combination of the two! each problem has its solution :)

i'm just saying don't be extreme in either direction, the fact that your general experience may be coloured favourably by the open source movement (as is mine) doesn't mean that there aren't a whole bunch of awesome proprietary things whose programmers *deserve* to be paid for.

apple, for example, does just fine. and that's just the first example that comes to mind.