Barcelona Night Life

Barcelona is such a great place to live. people there really put a premium on socializing. imagine it being more important to go out with your friends than to get that big promotion. Even when you're, gasp, pushing 30.They say there are more bars in Barcelona than in the rest of the European communitycombined.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that everyone gets drunk all the time--bars are for hanging out and talking or for having a cup of coffee (espresso, of course).

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Perl Tutorial, Lesson 1

If you're on a UNIX server, every Perl script should start with a shebang line that describes the path to the Perl interpreter on your server. The shebang line might look like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl/


Here's the first part of the Cat and other Bistro script (see the WAP/WML chapter), where the variables are declared, and the $number variable is screened to make sure it's actually a number: 

my $number = param('number);

my $moke = param('smoke');

my $dinner_index = param('dinner_index');


$number =~ /([0-9]*/;

$number = $1;

Sometimes I get the point where I'm not sure anything matters at all. Then I read something like this and I am inspired;

It's not hard to figure out what's good for kids, but amid the noise of an
increasingly atichild political climate, it can be hard to remeber just to go ahead and do it: for example, to vote to raise your school district's budget, even though you'll pay higher taxes. (If you're earning enough to pay taxes at all, I promise, the school needs those few bucks more than you do.) To support legislators who care more about afterschool programs, affordable health care, and libraries than about military budgets and the Dow Jones industrial average. To volunteer time and skills at your neighborhood school and also the school across town. To decide to notice, rather than ignore it, when a neighbor is losing it with her kids, and offer to babysit twice a week. This is not interference. Getting between a ball player and a ball is interference. The ball is inanimate.

This is from Barbara Kingsolver's brilliant collection of essays, High Tide in