This week, George Harrison gives us a song about both incrementing and taxes: “One, two, three, four, one, two…“

Now that we’ve been counted in song, let’s count in code for Perl Weekly Challenge 323.

This week is another blog-light week; my evening for writing got eaten up by a production problem at work, so… here, listen to Signs by the Five Man Electrical Band while we whip through Perl Weekly Challenge 322.

They say that “comparison is the thief of joy”, but the people who say that aren’t computer scientists.

I’ve only got one song on my music server at home that has “compare” in the title, so please enjoy it (and have a link to the artists while you’re at it).

So now let’s head on into this week’s distinctly unique Perl Weekly Challenge 321.

I wrote the solutions two days ago, but couldn’t think of anything to write about it, and now it’s Mother’s Day and if I don’t post this now, it will be too late. And I promised myself I’d keep up with these for my mom, so, without any music or other commentary, let’s look at Perl Weekly Challenge 320.

Still working on getting into the swing of weekly blogging again. Nothing jumped out at me for a musical theme this week, so I just picked King Crimson’s Cat Food off the top of my head. Having three cats sleeping all around me probably had something to do with it.

So before I need to feed these cats, let’s jump into Perl Weekly Challenge 318.

I haven’t been feeling like blogging lately. In November, my mother, the woman who taught me how to program and was for decades my default person to ask complex SQL questions, went into the hospital because she was having trouble breathing. In early January, she died.

I’ve been struggling to deal with my feelings about this, but one of the things that I knew deep in my heart is that she wanted me to return to Perl blogging. If for no other reason than to honor her…

And with the first task being “circular”, I couldn’t help think about Joni Mitchell’s Circle Game. My mother loved folk music, too.

So let’s circle round to Perl Weekly Challenge 316.

I’m not really feeling music recently. I’m not feeling much of anything, but I need to do the challenge. So here’s Perl Weekly Challenge 296.

I was able to work on task 1 on Monday, but I haven’t been able to focus since. Here’s three solutions for task 1 of Perl Weekly Challenge 294.

Don’t wanna discuss it
Think it’s time for a change
You may get disgusted
Start thinking that I’m strange

I mean, I guess I am strange for always wanting to include music in the weekly challenge, but with a first challenge like this, how could I not link to Van Morrison’s Domino.

There’s no need for argument in Perl Weekly Challenge 293.