Problem: How do I find time to learn stuff like this when I need to know stuff like this before I can expand time enough so I have time to learn it? - Phil Gyford
Nice short film of images and sounds from wartime Britain (if you sit through the introduction from the Canadian). Terence Davies mentions it in the current 'Sight & Sound'. - Phil Gyford
Or watch Clay give that "how do they find the time?" talk in person on this video. Worth it; he's an awesome speaker. (via Daring Fireballl) - Phil Gyford
My Perl scripts were never fetching UTF8 strings from a UTF8 database. Much cursing later, I found this reference to doing $dbh->("mysql_enable_utf8") = 1. Seems to work. Finally. Grr. - Phil Gyford
He paints a painting every day and then auctions it. Lovely paintings. Something like this has been my exit strategy for a while (assuming I found time to improve at painting/drawing/etc). (via Textism) - Phil Gyford
Awww... we used to see this guy at Ashton Court Festival, wandering around in a leather thong with a huge bottle of cider. He was called Colin Toogood and he's died. - Phil Gyford
Collecting comments left on vaguely-related websites by people thinking they're contacting a famous person. I still occasionally get comments left by people talking to Jamie Oliver. - Phil Gyford