On my [homepage](http:\/\/ryskamp.org), I describe myself as a “28-year-old designer”. Sharp-eyed observers will notice that’s now inaccurate–I turned 29 on Sunday. So for the past few years I’ve logged in shortly after my birthday and updated the number manually.<\/p>\n
This morning I started to do that and remembered that last year I’d grown weary of the process and coded it this way:<\/p>\n
> I am a <? echo ([date](http:\/\/us3.php.net\/date)(“y”)+20); ?>-year-old designer<\/p>\n
So while my homepage will always lag a bit behind reality, for a December birthday this works pretty well. At least until I turn 120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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