work hours

my mum just reminded me that it's 5am - where'd the night go?!

1. the keyboard-nub mouse pointer, the switched ctrl / function buttons, the unconfigurable touchpad, and the super-useful buttons crammed on here that i've yet to get used to all interfere somewhat with the user experience.

2. on the other hand, this machine actually works and aside from one hiccup (apache server doesn't dig skype; didn't see that coming) it's been smooth sailing and i'm working from an actual development environment for the first time in forever. like, it's been the greater part of a decade that i've used a decent system and configuration.

3. php: i'm proud of the function i've constructed to replace mysql's REPLACE statement. i'm disappointed with how hard it is to convert a string to a datetime variable when i have an appropriate format string at the ready.

4. bed.