The whole series bears repeated viewings. There is so much going on that you can and do miss stuff, not just when tired, but also when wide awake. Coming back and rewatching the series is definitely recommended. However, bear in mind (and a mini-meta-spoiler follows) although the writers had a general concept for what they were trying to do, they were really winging it through much of the series, so you will find some inconsistencies if you look too closely. But it is still one of the best series ever shown on tv.

BTW, has anyone hooked you up with the folks over at Manning.com? They were looking for some reviewers a short while ago - I can make the relevant introductions if you like.

Jed is the brother of... He wrote much of the music for Dr Horrible btw. ;^)

Jed, not Joss. 8^P

And the third season will eventually be available on YouTube just like the second - the Microsoft deal started with the second season and only provides temporary exclusivity to Microsoft platforms. (FWIW, Xbox360 owners get access to season 3 first, then the other Microsoft properties about a week later.)

PS - still think ur really a d00d ;^P

If LG is a dude then I am so switching sides! 8^P

I read that as shark fisting and thought to myself that Jorg wasn't going to be too happy about that... ;^)

The short story can be found here: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/stories/enders-game.shtml

Or find another school...

Cut and paste works very nicely in the 3.0 beta. 3.0 fixes a lot of the minor quibbles I have had with the iPhone in fact.

When you post an entry with WordPress, it stores the entry date/time in the DB. To have a post appear at a specified time in the future you set the date/time to the posting date and when displaying entries, only pull out entries where the entry date/time is = now(). So nothing actually happens at the ime of the entry to magically post it - it is just a time-based filter when displaying entries...

However, WordPress also has a way of running tasks at specific times using a cron scheduler. One simplistic way of doing this (without relying on the OS's cron scheduler) is to have a list of jobs/times (in the db) and every time a visitor loads a page, check if any tasks need to be executed. If you have a regular stream of visitors, then it will seem almost as if the jobs are being executed at the right time in the background, but if your visitor numbers are low (or distribution over the day is irregular) then this does not work so good. WP can (or used to at least - I haven't checked this for a while) also use the OS cron to schedule jobs.

The National Academy of Science states global climate change is well established and widely accepted in the scientific community.

Well then, it must be true!

The biggest issue with SQL is training yourself to think in terms of set-based operations. So many of the complaints I have heard about how hard it is to do something in SQL revolve around this one, basic premise of the language. It took me several years to become comfortable enough with set-based processing, but now I am fully at ease with it and can do some things I thought were impossible when I was starting out with the language.

It's kinda like approaching a functional programming language with a procedural POV...