XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
This tagline amuses the heck out of me. And sounds true in a great many ways. (Haven't used Nokogiri, but apparently it is the best thing since sliced bread for parsing XML in Ruby...)
As the chat wrapped up, Karson wanted to make sure that the eruptions and disruption were kept in perspective. With the recent spate of major earthquakes, some people have been wondering whether the planet is in an especially active state. It's not. These things go on all the time, Karson said, but they're often under water or in distant regions where the impact goes unnoticed. The difference is mostly that recent events have taken place where people are more aware of it. "We take for granted that air travel just happens," Karson said. "The earth is an active planet, and we need to work around things like this.
The article itself is on the Icelandic volcano that erupted earlier this week, and why it created such a large plume of ash, which is interesting in itself. I found it even more interesting that Karson is of the opinion that all the earthquakes we've seen recently aren't special, they just happened to happen in populated areas. Admittedly, looking at the records for earthquakes around the world (on the USGS quake site) has gotten me wondering about that as well.
This is a 20% time project? Maybe I really should go work for the giant Google empire.
The [Install Other OS] and [Default System] features have been deleted. If you update your system software to version 3.21 or later, you will not be able to use [Install Other OS] or [Default System] under(Settings) >
(System Settings).
Well, they released the firmware update today, an despite some speculation that it might be an April Fool's joke, the release notes do mention removing the Linux support for the PS3. Obviously, I should reconsider buying Sony products in the future, since I'm not down with them removing features from things I've already bought.
I'm debating if i should wait for the modders to crack the firmware and release a patched version of 3.21, or if I should give up and just upgrade, since haven't yet used the feature...
