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Amazon remorse

October 24th, 2003 · 5 Comments

This morning, I’ve got bad Amazon remorse.

That’s sort of like buyer’s remorse, but a whole lot worse.

It’s the feeling you get after the doorbell rings, when you see the delightful cardboard box from Amazon–and all of a sudden you think of another book, something you didn’t order, that you really, really wish was inside that box.

Sigh.

Then again, the book I want may not be out yet. It’s:

PHP & Apache
& XML & RSS
& High-Power Time Management
for Dummies
The All-In-One Desk Reference
with CD


Tags: Life, the universe, and everything

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 jr // Oct 24, 2003 at 12:39 pm

    You’ll need to add SQL to the list if you want to use PHP to to publish your RSS in XML format off your Apache server any time soon.

  • 2 Betsy Devine // Oct 24, 2003 at 1:38 pm

    Awww, jr. I thought you were my friend. Now I feel really bad. ;-(

  • 3 marcum // Oct 24, 2003 at 1:43 pm

    It may not be that far off. Especially with “dummies” titles such as, Fibromyalgia For Dummies and Bioinformatics For Dummies recently emerging.

  • 4 Betsy Devine // Oct 25, 2003 at 8:03 am

    In fact, I was inspired by a real-life title–Apache, MySQL, and PHP Web Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. (After zipping through that for an hour or two, I’d probably know it all.) Unfortunately, it won’t be out until November.

  • 5 Pieter // Oct 25, 2003 at 3:33 pm

    Just ask Scott to teach you…