I tried to buy some wood at Lowes last night, and my Chase Visa card was declined — a first. There’s definitely room on the card, but I didn’t have time to deal with it then. I called them about it today, and they told me their computers were down for an update, and they [...]

The pdf extension library shipped with PHP-4.4.7 doesn’t work, and it’s a known “non-bug”. I’m not sure why they still ship the broken library. I installed the PECL version, via pear (my first time trying that), and that was pretty painless. It created a pdf.so and put it in some long /usr/local/lib path. So I [...]

Keith Olbermann: Bush & Cheney: Resign already.