A while back, I found out about this neat thing on OS X called "geektool" that allows you to put all kinds of stuff on your root window (desktop, for all you non-unixy peeps). One of the things I ran for a while was a calendar of my iCal stuff. I wasn't a big fan of it since it took up a lot of room, was slow to run, and since most of my calendars are on google, it seemed to make more sense to get it from google rather than waiting for it to be pushed to iCal.

I finally fixed all of those problems.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/270267/-z_programming_languages_...

One of the best parts, for me, is (regarding "where do you see Perl in 20 years from now?"):

Don't design everything you will need in the next 100 years, but design the ability to create things we will need in 20 or 100 years.

Sometimes you get to do something pretty neat in perl that hurts your head, but makes you smile when you are done.


# I'm sooo sorry for this:
my $total = join ',', reverse sort split ',', join ',+,', map +( "f_" . $_ ), @types;


I love it when what looks like line noise is functional code.

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Bill