News You Can Bruise for 2006 February 9

The best part about writing a book is coming up with totally ridiculous examples for the code samples. Today I reviewed the four elements ("Fire: Perhaps the most overrated element."), and just now I wrote the phrase "Oh, MySQL, you're the only one who really understands me.". Probably some of them will be cut, but I hope not; I think they make good mneumonic devices. You can remember "Oh yeah, that was the recipe with Brunching Shuttlecocks-style reviews of the elements," and search for "water".

If NaNoWriMo is not extreme enough for you, try The 3-Day Novel Contest.