Archive for May, 2004
Cool Breakout game
Monday, May 31st, 2004
Playaholics - Play games and win stuff!
Its based on the breakout concept but pretty cool. Controls are harder, but the concept is great!
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Little Drummer Boy
Monday, May 31st, 2004
Baby Drum
Very Cute! I’ve always wanted to do something like that. Video is in mpeg format get just the video here.
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Tillman killed by Friendly Fire
Monday, May 31st, 2004
News
Read on to hear the bulls*** story the military came up with to try to create a martyr out of him.
Cpl Tillman’s status as a national hero will be hardly dented by the new details of his fate. It is an embarrassment for the US military, however, which had earlier given a fairly detailed […]
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Technocrati for Sale!!
Saturday, May 29th, 2004
Technocrati is now for sale on eBay!
Another big ticket item on sale! starting bid is $67,800 buy it now at $115,000! That is JUST for the domain name, NOT for the site!
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Gay Spa?
Thursday, May 27th, 2004
Phone company makes a day spa faux pas
Phone book lists a “Day Spa” as a “Gay Spa”. Spa gets phone calls from their customers wondering if straight customers are still welcome!
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An Annie Update!
Thursday, May 27th, 2004
Just thought I’d jot down a few “Annie Antics” before starting work this morning.
Annie has been growing up so fast! She has a mind of her own and it really works! It’s amazing to see how her thought patterns develop. One of the things that she has been really on about the last few weeks […]
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Amnesty International Summary
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
TheStar.com - War on terror lawless: Amnesty
Here it is for your reading pleasure!
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Amnesty International Report for 2004
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
Amnesty International Report 2004
Just skimmed over the first few paragraphs. Good reading, but I’ll wait for the papers to summerize it. One interesting part from the section that I read was:
Iraq and the “war on terror” have obscured the greatest human rights challenge of our times. According to some sources, developing countries spend about US$22 […]
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Iraqi Exit Strategy
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
Exit Strategy - How to leave Iraq in three simple steps. By George Saunders
VERY Funny! How to kill the people who want to kill us without creating more people who want to kill us is explained in very simple terms.
Must read!
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Windows XP Firewall
Monday, May 24th, 2004
msfirewall.jpg (JPEG Image, 740×555 pixels)
Clickety!
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Did Linus write Linux
Saturday, May 22nd, 2004
Just the other day I was telling someone that Tannenbaum would never back up Dan Browns statements that Linus Torvalds didn’t write Linux. I haven’t really been following the story, but Tannenbaum has just put out another statement.
Still as arrogent/confident as always, but a good read!
Read it at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/
UPDATE: Tannenbaum’s second article also up here
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Database Design Tools
Friday, May 21st, 2004
Toast is in the Toaster, and I have loads of work todo, but I just wanted to make quick notes of these nice looking Database Design tools.
Database Design Tool
DBDesigner4
Both OSS, both looking pretty nice!
See also Design - Database Design Tools : Design Information, News, Useful Tips and Design Examples
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New PHP Blog
Thursday, May 20th, 2004
of Pears and Pickles
The secret is out It’s my new blog (and just when you thought I was back here), which will hopefully become the unified source for up-to-the-minute PHP news for those who don’t have time to read the mailing lists.
It’s running serendipity out of the CVS. And seems to be doing pretty […]
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Magic Quotes! Yay!
Thursday, May 20th, 2004
PHP: get_magic_quotes_gpc - Manual
Having one of those GPC nightmares! Anyway found this happy snippet that un-does the GPC “magic”.
[code]
function magicQuotesRemove(&$array) {
if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc())
return;
foreach($array as $key => $elem) {
if(is_array($elem))
[…]
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GET VB Studio.net 2003 FREE
Monday, May 17th, 2004
Visual Basic: Visual Basic At The Movies
All you have to do is watch a few movies and answer a few questions. If you’re into VB then I guess it’s worth it.
As far as I’m concerned BCX is the closest I’m EVER getting to basic and windows programming!
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