Archive for September, 2005

Talk Like A Pirate

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Today be the official Talk Like A Pirate Day matey, so you’d better hoist the jolly roger and batten down the hatches or the’ll be a mutiny fer sure.

Portland Perl Mongers

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

I attended my first Portland Perl Mongers meeting yesterday, with a talk by chromatic, technical editor of the O’Reilly Network on The Seven Sins of OO Perl. Both the conversation and presentation were informed, eclectic and sharp. I’ve been lurking on the mailing list for a long time now, but I hadn’t realized [...]

Towards Citizenship

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

As a non-resident alien on the long road to attain American citizenship, I find the Lisa Comrie’s recent pointing both inspiring and frustrating. It is good to see that the process can work, but I still fail to understand how America benefits be making intelligent, hardworking, highly motivated foreigners wait 15 or 20 years [...]