I've just packaged PHP 5.1.2RC1, the first release candidate for the next 5.1 version. A small holiday present for all PHP users, from the the PHP developers

. This is primarily a bug fixing release with its major points being:
* Many fixes to the strtotime() function, over 10 bugs have been resolved.
* A fair number of fixes to PDO and its drivers
* New OCI8 that fixes large number of bugs backported from head.
* A final fix for Apache 2 crash when SSI includes are being used.
* A number of crash fixes in extensions and core components.
* XMLwriter & Hash extensions were added and enabled by default.
The sources can be downloaded from:
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.2RC1.tar.bz2
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http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.2RC1.tar.gz
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Win32 binaries should be available shortly from
http://downloads.php.net/ilia/ as well.
Had to go to a business meeting in downtown Toronto this afternoon. So, like most people I drove to the subway with the intent of making the rest of the way via public transit. Upon arrival to the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) subway station I attempted to park my car at the designated parking lot. Alas, this was not to be thanks to Windows "empowered" parking meter guarding the lot entrance. As you can see from this rather poor quality, phone picture it was dealing with an unexpected error. Something to do with USB (???) device not being found, go go windows.
This of course ment that no matter what the gate wouldn't open and myself and a dosen of other commuters had to find an alternate parking spot in mid-afternoon in downtown North York. Not a particularly easy task, let me tell you.