wheresrhys

The funniest thing just happened:

I was adding this as my facebook status in one of the study pods at the library:
“Rhys is wondering why the amsterdam library has lots of signs up saying “2,000+ dicks”. 2,000 people and some dicks? More than 2,000 dicks?”

Just then a middle-aged man with his elderly father poked his head in to the pod and said in dutch something which must have been along the lines of “And look, father, in this modern library there are plenty of places where people such as this young genius can study hard”

Could there be a  better illustration of how the internet lowers our level of thought. From now on I will only have studious facebook messages.

On another note, I’m trying to choose a php framework to learn to use (akelos is the frontrunner), and used the website -www.phpframeworks.com to help me. Two interesting aspects of it are:

1. The site is wider than my screen. I guess it’s really as wide asmy screen, but they forgot to account for scroll bars. A rare example of a website aimed at the programming community that takes advantage of the fact that most of us (though alas not I) have massive screens.
2. It uses tables for its layout. After working for a day converting a site made with Frontpage to standards compliant, semantic xHTML, and revelling in the difference between the sites when I turn CSS off, it saddens me that everyone isn’t doing it. I mean, it’s actually quite good fun.

Happy valentine’s day