perlmeditation cavac <p>Here's my short checklist for 2012. <ul> <li>2012 will be a leap year. Check date calculation and validation routines for February/March.</li> <li>Beeing a leap year, it has 36<b>6</b> days. If you are doing statistics or are working in Microsoft's Zune team, this might be important to remember.</li> <li>The [wp://Mesoamerican Long Count calendar] (also known as the Mayan calendar) rolls over into a new epoch. Software that works with that (History related data sets, Museums) might have to make a few bugfixes.</li> <li>This is a [wp://Leap year starting on Sunday]. This only happens every 28 years.</li> <li>As such, 2012 will have three occurrences of Friday the 13th, which might break one or more Acme modules.</li> <li>On June 6, The second and last solar [wp://Transit of Venus] of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125. You might not want to miss this one!</li> <li>In August, the [wp://Mars Science Laboratory] will land on Mars. This is certainly the coolest RC car ever build, it even has a laser to vaporize things at a distance!</li> <li><b>Update:</b> On December 18th, Perl will have its 25th anniversary (counted from Release of 1.0 on comp.sources.misc)</li> <li><b>Update:</b> [wp://Solar cycle 24] is predicted to reach it's maximum. Watch out for [wp://Aurora Borealis], coming this year to a night sky near your.</li> </ul> </p> <p>Any important, funny or otherwise interesting items missing? Add a comment with your own list down below!</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-890813"> <pre>BREW /very/strong/coffee HTTP/1.1 Host: goodmorning.example.com 418 I'm a teapot</pre> </div></div>