The Brain Within Its Groove

A Book

Dave — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:57:27 +0000

He ate and drank the precious words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.

He danced along the dingy days,
And this bequest of wings
Was but a book. What liberty
A loosened spirit brings!

Emily Dickinson, ‘Life: XXI’

Currently Reading

Dave — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:45:25 +0000

The Ancestor's Tale: a Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins I've read quite a bit on science and evolution, and while I'm not an expert, I feel pretty comfortable with the subject. I think I learned more in the first 50 pages of this book than in all the other things I've read [...]

Singletons in PHP 4.x

Dave — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:34:48 +0000

A singleton is a class which is designed so that only one instance can exist. The class typically is designed so that the constructor is private and the object is instantiated through a static function. This is a bit of a problem in PHP because each script is interpretted for each request, not compiled and [...]