This is a pretty balanced look at how Maine’s attempts to reform health care have proved difficult and have had unintended side effects. Its a big gamble to try this on a national level hoping for a different outcome. Maine is the Charlie Brown of health care. The state’s legislators have tried for decades to […]
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Guilty as charged – my very early code was littered with functions with horrendously long signatures. All the worse in PHP, which doesn’t have a meaningful way to overload functions. Too many parameters means your function is likely trying to do too many things, instead of doing any one thing well. A simple way to
But really, what does that get me? It was with a bit of a smirk that I read about Ubuntu user’s pains in upgrading to Karmic, the latest release. Ubuntu’s previous release upgrade or two had killed my networking, to the point that I had to reinstall the whole OS and I instead switched to
Particularly in emails? I’m curious, and while I’m a fan of cleaner, and short, urls, I can’t find any evidence to support my hunch. If you’re sending links via email, and the url is not hidden behind an href, do complicated looking urls get less clicks? I suspect they would, because users will ignore them
I was asked the following question today and this is my stab at a response. I’d appreciate and welcome any feedback if you’ve worked with a Drupal multi-site instance. Can you clone sites? Or would you have to clone every part of a site and reassemble it for each site? It depends on what you
Ugh, is it a rule that when you become an activist you lose your sense of humor? Target had to pull this “Illegal Alien” costume, because some of mi gente didn’t like it. I find it funny, is there something wrong with me? See – its an Extraterrestrial – and , get this, he’s not
Wow! Mozilla Weave is a PHP application that you can run on your own server. Weave lets you sync data – bookmarks, passwords, and more – between Firefox on separate computers. HT: Untangling the Web with Mozilla Weave. Syncing passwords and bookmarks is old hat. Mozilla Weave, a Mozilla Labs project is a tool designed
If you read one article about the ingredients in Vaccines today, it should be this one. While it starts out as a bit of a rant, I did learn about the importance of dosages of supposedly harmful ingredients. And, some of these “toxic chemicals”, including NaCl, are in other everyday things that you may already
I’ve written before about using Microsoft’s IE Application Compatibility Images with VirtualBox. These images provided a very convenient, and free, way to setup testing environments in all versions of Internet Explorer. The images, since they are free copies of Windows, expire after a time, requiring you to download a new image. The latest images provided
If you missed it, today the new FCC Chairman made a significant announcement regarding "Preserving a Free and Open Internet." Hint, here’s one way to start – don’t lock everything up in a PDF, but thats not the point. The stated purpose of the policy is That’s why Congress and the President have charged