Of geeks and babies

I’m trying to find out why the count() function ni php is not working like its supposed to
Instead of computing a total of 5 judges it says 6.. which is one more.. and which just wont do
also, the unique function is misbehaving.. only with Shah J…
we must presume that Shah is not unique or he [...]

We have a crawling heater

It’s one of those things that blows hot air into a cold room. Small, rectangular, has a stand on which you prop up the front so the hot air blows upwards. (Doesn’t hot air always move upwards, anyway?)
Well, the little rubber thingies on that stand, the ones that are supposed to cushion it so that [...]

Nostalgia

Have you chased each other under the arches, playing pakdam pakdaai in memory of the last game you’d played together?
When you did, did you feel how muted it was this time around? Wasn’t the memory louder, brighter, more rowdy?
Did you end the game with a tumble on the ground? But this time around, didn’t you put [...]

My first step to celebrity status

My first death threat. Does this qualify? (No, no, look at the comment!)
It leaves me a little confused, though. He liked the movie, and I thought it was clear that I liked it too. But he still wants to kill me ’slowly and painfully’.
Actually, it might not be me he wants to kill. He wants [...]

Tag?

 About a month ago, Tharunya tagged me.
 Write out as many things as you can that you admire in others, whether you have them or no.
And she said, for some reason, that *my* list, she would see. I told her it might take a while, and it has. Not because there aren’t things I admire in [...]

Jommetry, Headology and a Personal Statement

I finished the last, so felt entitled to a bit of the first two. Yes, I’ve been reading Pratchett, and hugely enjoying myself. (Thanks, BB, for lending me Equal Rites!)
I’ve also been accused of talking too much, and realised how true it was when I picked up a hugely excited Pooh from the airport yesterday [...]

Choices

The princess looked hard at the choices before her. Unsuitable, Uninteresting and Incorrigible, she’d labelled them - ’twas getting really hard to remember all the fancy names.
She’d been through this routine for three years now, and as she’d been warned, the choices got worse every year. But at least she could do most of it [...]