use Perl

I keep a livejournal that I update much more often. Perhaps I should merge this with that. Or maybe get a copy of moveable type going....

I really wish that BBEdit had syntax highlighting for Mason components. I looked into doing it myself, but I quickly became scared of the idea. Maybe I can hire someone that knows how to write those things to make a Mason one.

I had a thought that Time::tm objects should have an overloaded stringify that return something like scalar localtime. I couldn't think of an efficient way to do it, though localtime has the dirty little secret of just doing an indirect sprintf to create that string... hrrrm...