this is awesome


A TED speaker's worst nightmare

Parks Canada has the coolest tiled background ever: a brown beaver!


... and yes, I am a nerd.

Well, I never thought I'd see a former highschool classmate in Vanity Fair's celebrity issue... I've seen friends in their Green issues before, but this is a new one.

Just for you Jere:

They even got her name right, she's not "and guest" like a lot of the other non-celebs.

And awesome news about Hemsky!

No, if it was placeholders I wouldn't be annoyed. It was actually 2 or 3 sentences in english, and then the same 2 or 3 sentences run through google translate french. Hard coded and committed to the repository.

Hemsky re-signed!!

Are those placeholders, or was it really "Some english phrase"? In any case, clearly it's far better than t(). Because it is.

So in the theme of the project I'm working on, there's a relic bit of code that isn't even used anymore that looks like this: t('Comments');

The t() is a native Drupal translation function that takes the input "Comments" and translates it to the users current language. He doesn't really like it that way though, he wants it directly through the database of the CMS (which will just run it through t anyway)... fair enough, it can be done either way and both is technically acceptable.

So he creates a bug report for it.

Then he goes and adds to the theme himself.

if($language->language == "en"){
echo "Some english phrase";
}

if($language->language == "fr"){
echo "Some french phrase";
}

This guy really likes Mass Effect: "Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science Fiction Universe of Our Generation"

Porcupine Tree- Lazarus

New kid at work suggested this band to me. Maybe we'll keep him around.