Wayne Hirata's Blog (7)

The GIF Pronunciation Page. I'm right.

hawaii has an excise tax and no sales tax. there is a difference. but our legislators and the general public are idiots. even the people who pay the excise tax don't know the difference.

Hawaii doesn't have a sales tax.

I've discovered WordPress MU, a multi-blog version of WordPress. This allows me to have one instance of WordPress and one database to manage multiple blogs. The number of database tables grows proportionally with the number of blogs.

I thought Google and Yahoo knew everything. Where are the lyrics to the Copper Nickel song Come Run With Me? This Internet thing is useless, just a passing fad.

if someone says you have a computer brain, that person is insulting you, saying you have the smarts of a relay switch.

What's happening with Perl, the jackknife of all kitchen sinks? I still learning and still liking it. ASP.Net is too weird. PHP is so inconsistent. Don't know Java or the other silly web languages.



Started out on the HP 2000E and HPBasic, pounding away at a teletype in Keller Hall. Then it was Fortran and punch cards on the IBM 370. Soon the retail personal computer appeared, TRS-80 and Apple II. Then IBM Personal Computer, 256K memory, dual floppy drives. Now it's FreeBSD, Apache,… Continue