Time Recursion

I know, I know. I’m late. Again. Well, it seems like you’ll have to get used to it. However, the site itself gives me a pretty good excuse for this seemingly outrageous time gap in my writing. There is no time. So technically, everything is happening at exactly the same time, but since you don’t have the ability to foresee the future, my time bubble is impenetrable, and thus the news come with a delay.

Anyway, I’m at the University right now, just finished writing an exam, and am preparing for two more that are coming this Friday. (continue reading…)

Shoving aside the largely unsuccessfully propagated, mostly true and real prejudices about the dangerously low health factor of fast-food and similar mostly American “fat-food goods”, I was delighted to stop at McDonald’s last evening. Again. After a few days’ break though, to console the irritated uprising horde of readers flashing a mix of alarming reactions on their clearly shocked faces. Hey, I can’t help myself! A nicely packed, warm, tasty Big-Mac is still a Big-Mac, no matter the rampaging economic crisis. And surprisingly enough, an unhealthy meal at the said “restaurant” is still much cheaper and commonly affordable than it’s healthy equivalent of the same caloric composition served in a fancier ambient. And not to mention that it takes less time and effort to order and consume it!

It’s more than one year from the official release of phpBB3 and there are still many forums running the older version, no matter the fact, that the beta versions of the third major release have been available for about three years already. And so, after a period of reasoning the pros and the cons of the upgrade, the time for switching to the new version came also for a forum I help to run, and with that a picnic basket of complications. Why a picnic basket? Because it usually looks very nice and inviting, and it holds an unimaginable quantity of various food, that is usually so different that it doesn’t go together well.

And so we strike right at the core of the issue at hand. The forum has a layout, that is optimised to work with both a joomla front-end and the phpBB2 forum itself, which is littered with php code for various modules, scripts and hacks. To sum it up, it’s not really a nice piece of code, that you can expect to work with everything you want. (continue reading…)