Programming

Live Ajax PHP regex tester

Yesterday I was close to a nervous breakdown, because my beloved PHP regex tester, formerly to be found at http://nancywalshee03.freehostia.com/, doesn’t exist any more. So I shorthand created another gem of dirty programming work and wrote a new one quickly, to be found at http://www.ginchen.de/regextester/. It uses preg_match_all() to find the needle in the haystack and [...]

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Everyday's mysteries, Stupidity

The green poison of the Devil fruit

While I was cutting a tomato into slices today, with a view to making a caprese, and thereby removed the green stem in the middle, I remembered amusedly the episode of “Gräfin gesucht” [1] that I had watched the other day. The desperate single count, who had also planned a Caprese for dinner, was therefore [...]

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