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The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable.

Article 2, Section 6 of The Constitution of The Republic of The Philippines
I suppose it would be wishful thinking to hope for the US to follow a sensible Filipino lead in this respect. Though it would also be good if Filipinos actually followed their constitution.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

-John W. Gardner

Quality is important in plumbing, philosophy, and coding all the same…

Bank of America requires that your password be only alphanumeric.

Wait. Let me get this straight. You want me to supply a password that consists of only letters and numbers, thereby increasing the likelihood of simple dictionary attacks? And this is “to make sure [my] passcode is sufficiently secure”? Apparently there are “invalid symbols” that I [...]

I never got around to writing a print stylesheet for posts when I redesigned this site the last time, so I went ahead and did so tonight. It’s very minimalist and uses a serif font for printed readability (Georgia to be exact).
I’ve tested the output in Safari and Firefox on some of my more complicated [...]

For some reason I find it highly improbable that I’m the only one to ever experience this breakage with the Bazaar VCS:
$ bzr
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/local/bin/bzr”, line 76, in ?
import bzrlib.breakin
ImportError: No module named breakin
I installed it from MacPorts a long time ago and ran into this [...]

If Python 3.0 ships before Perl 6, I’m going to cry.

John Gruber, Daring Fireball
Of course it will. And I’m going to laugh. Heartily.