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title: "Quick and Random Thoughts"
date: 2005-08-12T23:57:03-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/08/12/quick-and-random-thoughts/
author: Les Orchard
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# Quick and Random Thoughts

* Today was my last day at my job in downtown Detroit.  Change is afoot.

* I put together a bed today from [Cost Plus World Market][cost] that could have probably crushed me.  This was dumb.

[cost]: http://www.worldmarket.com/index.htm

* I still have a reflexive dislike for PHP, for many of the same reasons (and more!) I tend to avoid Perl after having lived in it for over a decade.  

  But, damn, if the developers of WordPress and MediaWiki didn't make things easy to install.  My horror will probably return once I start to look under the hood.

* Methinks that [Sudoku][] puzzles were what Ragle Gumm was working on in [Phillip K. Dick's *Time Out of Joint*][joint].  They're making me all shifty and paranoid.

[sudoku]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku
[joint]: http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_timeoutofjoint.html

* Is it just me, or is there some almost obscene irony to have just seen a local TV news program present a story about rising oil and fuel prices--only to see them, with straight faces, immediately follow that up with a report on the upcoming [Woodward Dream Cruise in the Detroit area][cruise]?  

[cruise]: http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/

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                <a href="#comment-221084963" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-08-15T01:10:52">2005-08-15T01:10:52</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Well if you have any questions or concerns about WP be sure to drop me an email. :)</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221084964" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-08-15T10:00:24">2005-08-15T10:00:24</time></a>
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            <div class="content">And if you compare the current WP code to some of the earlier versions, you probably won't cringe quite as badly. There has been steady refactoring going on.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221084965" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-08-15T10:26:55">2005-08-15T10:26:55</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Dougal: Oh, I'm sure WP looks pretty good under the hood -- this is just an irrational phobia of PHP in general that I'm talking about.  :)</div>
            
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