today’s cultural event: went to see the exhibition, Blumenmythos, at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (along with hundreds of other visitors). The show is a “must see”.

Some of my favorites:

David Hockney, Mount Fuji and Flowers, 1972

Andy Warhol, Flowers, series, 10 sheets, 1970

I’ll probably go back on [...]

it would be nice to have the flexibility of MovableType, the parsing of TextPattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger

Practical examples showing how to use basic PHP to display dynamic web content:
Easy-peasy PHP

is it machiato, macchiato, or machiatto? non lo so!

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Worries about rich web applications:

I know I’m just one quiet voice in a storm, but if you are thinking of developing any kind of “rich” web application, please, please, embrace all the aspects of the web experience we all love so much rather than rejecting them for your own preferences and [...]

I would rather endure the discomfort of adventure than the boredom of luxury.

Even introverts influence other people. Sociologists tell us the most introverted of people will influence 10,000 others in an average lifetime. Wow. How many people might you influence, seeing that you actually want to make a difference in the lives of other people?

source:
paraphrase from one of John C. Maxwell’s books [...]