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If it were up to me, my kids wouldn't know much about football.  I'm not even sure that we'd watch the superbowl.

But in our family dvfmama knows football and the kids learn a lot watching with her.  So do I.

Besides the actual excitement of the game, it was fun to watch her get excited about the plays and predict what the teams were going to do.  She watched a lot of football before we got married, and it shows. While I'm lost trying to follow the action, she notices the faked passes.

I think she deserves to get an HDTV with a few HD sports channels.  Hmm... might make a nice Anniversary present.

While looking for a way to automate testing for the application I'm working on, I was amused to learn that, even for PHP applications, the standard for automated testing still seems to be Perl's (and the Apache standard) Apache::Test module.

I'm sure a lot of this is because of the browser-based mindset of PHP,  This combined with OO-heavy testing frameworks that show their Java roots make Apache::Test pretty attractive for lightweight automated testing.

I've managed to combine it with Debian's pbuilder for some great automated testing in a pristine environment.  Beautiful.