This must be a very familiar tale, yet I feel the urge to tell it again... about two weeks ago my hard drive started making that horrible 'click' noise that indicates that it is about time for it to shuffle off its all too mortal coil (and spindle, and platter …

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I'm going a little nutty at the moment with a stack overflow of P* programming languages.

1. Perl: I have been attending Yet Another Perl Conference::North America (YAPC::NA) in my lovely hometown of Toronto. YAPCs are a little out of the ordinary, as far as conferences that I've attended--for …

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I arrived at San Jose International airport last night. I'm in town to attend the MySQL User Conference, but of course I'm also in town to experience a new location.

The first half hour or so was relatively benign; while I knew the hotel I was staying at offered complimentary …

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