A Marine Mom Lays it Down. Sgt Hook posts a Marine Mother's open letter. Make sure you've got tissue handy.Excerpt:”We are a different breed, like our Marines. I talk with other Marine Moms every day, and they feel the same way. We speak in Marine Corps lingo, use military time, have links on our computer that give the location of our Marines' nearest PX (Post Exchange), or the current temp in Baghdad. Our homes are shrines to our sons and daughters who serve. We always have boot wax, liquid starch, lint brushes out the wazzoo, an extra war bag, even anodized brass buttons and spare chevrons on hand.”And that's not the best part. Go read it. [Digital
Warfighter]

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it is worth reading.

the audio world in everyday experience is different if you aren't plugged into your ipod and shure e2s…. and i must say…. it isn't as impressive as it might be unless there is no other sound except the birds and rest of nature. there is…. if you have silence, a pervasive and somewhat deafening roar of humanity in every civilized place…. i'm not sure that it is a good thing.

in short, i left the ipod uncharged lastnight and only just now realized the generalized noise of others. i've had the e2s for a while now. the walk to work was great until the trucks came along, from then on it was just an extended diatribe against noise polution.

Margaret Meade. A Good Thought. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!

— Margaret Meade [Ted's Radio Weblog] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]

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this is a great quote.

B.D.‰¥ús Leg. I‰¥úm surprised there hasn‰¥út been more buzz about Garry Trudeau having blown off B.D.‰¥ús leg today (but, mercifully, apparently he‰¥ús going to live). It hit me kind of hard; this is the first time that the Iraq war has injured a ‰¥þperson I know‰¥? and I‰¥úve known B.D. for going on thirty years now. I don‰¥út suppose it‰¥úll change the political landscape any, but you have to admire Trudeau for taking this on head-on. Plus, on the upside, he also took B.D.‰¥ús dorky helmet off, and it was getting kind of tired after all these years. [ongoing]

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between Doonsberry and Get Fuzzy, two of my favorite cartoons, I'm thinking that more cartoonists need to promote awareness in this arena. Get Fuzzy is especially good, because they ask the question…. Why aren't we Honoring the injured and dead of our country? They deserve it. not just locally, but nationally, they deserve it, but the current administration is against it apparently, as the two people responsible for the flagged coffin's picture yesterday demonstrate. they were fired.

Crash Course into Object Oriented Programming. 22 Apr 2004: The purpose of this article is to give a novice programmer the basic idea of what OOP is, as implemented using PHP. Readers should have a basic knowledge of programming ie what variables are, variable types, basic methods of writing comments, and how to enter code into a text editor. [RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix]

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this is a very basic introduction, but it might help some people who are interested. today i spent programming in a functional manner instead of a object manner, but the applications is small enough to get away with that right now.