As some friday fun in #geekup we ended up converting the US Marines Creed to a geekier version.

So, I keep having to reinstall mysql5 and rubygems from time to time for various reasons. I always install mysql5 through MacPorts as a dependency for the php5 port (along with various other bits for the LA*P stack).

I finally wrapped up some code I've been meaning to write for a while, its a wrapper for the Google Translate API. Its also the first serious time I've used method_missing in a class, in this case its to add methods for translating between all the various languages.

I ran across The Shell Meme on Lincoln Stoll's blog, and figured I'd, uh, borrow it.

Lets imagine we've got an array of strings, and we want to print it out as a list of strings using printf. (If you're complaining about my logic here, hold fire for just a second good sir/madam.)