Twice now in the last couple of years, I have needed to know the number of seconds in a year for some code I’ve written (always web-site stuff, it seems).

Twice now, in the last couple of years, I have immediately known that there are 525600 minutes in one year. Because of the musical “Rent”. The most god-awful mind-numbing tediously horrible 2.5 hour nap in my life.

For those of you who haven’t seen it, a quick summary:

• Everybody has AIDS.
• They’re homeless bums, but they’re bohemians, so it’s cool.
• Did I mention everybody has AIDS?

This might very well be a throw-yourself-off-a-bridge kind of admission … I’m overcome with shame.