This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Re: my post from yesterday. PHP is uniquely positioned in having been created to solve the web problem from the outset, in contrast to other web solutions which piggy-back on existing languages with broader concerns.