Archive for September, 2004

Crazy Apple Rumors Site: Broken CD Carrier Used As Justification For Purchase Of New G5.

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Crazy Apple Rumors Site: Broken CD Carrier Used As Justification For Purchase Of New G5.
Cnb pointed me to this sad tale of a man who went into the store to buy a CD case and came out with a new G5, IPOD and Cinema Display. Total cost: $4,185 plus tax
It’s probably a joke, but still […]

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Rules of debate: No asking each other questions

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

Rules of debate: No asking each other questions
A pretty funny read. Good stuff to keep in mind while watching the “debate”
The most stupid points are the ones regarding what the camera’s can show… “No reaction shots of one candidate when the other candidate is answering a question.“.
My theory is that the candidates will […]

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Anyone have experience with E-Gold?

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

e-gold… gold itself, circulated electronically
I’m thinking about opening an e-gold account, but except for this old wired article, I haven’t found any service reviews.
Everything looks pretty straightforward except for the fees page. Since they only use grams and troy ounces of the different metals, it’s difficult to see exactly what you are paying.
Spend Fee schedule […]

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UtterlyBoring.com: Biblical Laws for Children

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

UtterlyBoring.com: Biblical Laws for Children
Very funny set of “Biblical” laws for children…
My favorites:
Laws When at Table: Sit just as I have told you, and do not lean to one side or the other nor slide down until you are nearly slid away. Heed me; for if you sit like that, your hair will go […]

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Annie the Artist

Monday, September 27th, 2004

Annie is an Artist Originally uploaded by aaronwormus.
I guess every parent is flabbergasted by what their kid can do.
Annie loves drawing but when I saw her butterfly, I couldn’t believe that she had done it. Fabulous! It’s better than I can do. I just need […]

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New del.icio.us Custom Keyword

Friday, September 24th, 2004

Clint Laskowski, who happens to have a very cool domain name, sent me a tip on a new custom keyword for my list.
This keyword works with the del.icio.us social bookmark manager, and will bring up the del.icio.us page so that you can add it to your bookmark.
The process works like this.
1. You find a cool […]

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Lindows - Letters for sale

Friday, September 24th, 2004

eBay item 3931241522 (Ends Sep-28-04 08:09:34 PDT) - Amazingly Versatile 7-Letter Kit - Includes: LINDOWS
Someone is selling the Lindows letters (and a free dot) which used to adorn the outside of Lindows headquarters. Very funny ebay posting!
With 45 bids, the price is currently $630 and there are 4 days left.

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Dangers of SQLite Ignorance

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Note: If you came here looking for a commercial solution to encrypt SQLite Databases, head over to the official SQLite professional Support page.
We return to regular programming…
As discouraged as using register_globals is, most people who write about PHP will never admit that using register_globals is in itself is a security risk. Sloppy coding, coupled with […]

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I am Debian Linux

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Which OS are You?

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PHP Overload

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

Quote of the day!
“You know you think about PHP too much when you notice it’s 5:01pm and wonder when it’s going to be 5:02″
In other news, there are a LOT of new entries up on the ZEND Contest page. I downloaded the “ExpenseManager” and was very impressed by its coolness!
I was horrified, however to […]

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Making E_STRICT stricter

Monday, September 20th, 2004

Anyone who hangs around the #phpc room on freenode, know how much I enjoy complaining about PHP annoyances. The fact of the matter is that because of PHP’s irregularities unless you have intimate knowledge of how a function works, it’s VERY difficult to predict its behavior.

explode(’\n’, $string);
strtok($string, ‘\n’);

Explode and strtok, are simple examples about […]

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Albino Blacksheep / Flash / Squares 2

Monday, September 20th, 2004

Albino Blacksheep / Flash / Squares 2
Simple yet VERY addicting game!

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Zend Certification Study Guide — 5 Minute Review

Friday, September 17th, 2004

My Zend PHP Certification Study Guide arrived about 10 minutes ago. This short review is based on the information I absorbed from the book in a quick flip through the pages.
The first impression of the guide is the size of the book. It is very thin, a mere 223 pages, not counting the index. There […]

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Leaky Tap - Internet.CustomKeywords

Friday, September 17th, 2004

Leaky Tap - Internet.CustomKeywords
I decided that since this page is getting over a thousand unique visits a month it’s time to put up a google banner. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while, but now that I finally got it up I see that google just serves one of their won banners, rather […]

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Does GoDaddy Work with Paypal?

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

Low cost domain names, domain transfers, web hosting, email accounts, and so much more.
This page boasts about how easy it is to set up, so I’ve been trying to register a domain name with it just to see how it worked. I found out each time that it just doesn’t.
Anyone else get it working? Or […]

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