A Day in Paradise

Netcraft: New URL Spoofing Flaw Found in Internet Explorer
Here’s something for all those whiners who claim the Microsoft is “oh, so much better” because it can handle rotten HTML.

Not mine silly… www.boo.bs is not yet taken!
Here’s a great chance for a geek, to get their hands on boo.bs!
Move it! This might be your last chance!
Of course there is a downside… getting your hands on boo.bs is going to cost you $500, and that is only for the first 2 years, by […]

ABC, Fox air tape by purported terrorist
This one set off my conspiracy alarms. Fox (republican propoganda machine) would not have aired this if it was serious.
Of course, if the purpose was to scare Americans enough to vote for a “strong President who knows how to handle these terrists”, then airing it would make sense.

100,000 Iraqi civilians killed: Study
About 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the US-led invasion, according to a study by Iraqi and US public health experts.
The study, carried out in 33 neighbourhoods of Iraq and published on the Web site of the Lancet medical journal, shows that violence is now the leading cause of death in […]

Happy_Birthday_Angie Originally uploaded by aaronwormus.
Hey, Angelina!
Wishing you a Happy Birthday and wonderful New Year! You’re the best little sister ever!
Aaron, Stella, Annie and Mia!

Figlet driver for Text_CAPTCHA
Last night I was screwing around with the recently released Text_CAPTCHA and the unreleased Text_Figlet and came up with a rough driver for Text_CAPTCHA.
There’s still loads to do, but it gives you the idea of what it will do.

ONLamp.com: Allowing Registration-Required Binary Downloads
… something that can be done very simply with PEAR::HTTP_Download
[code]
$dl = &new HTTP_Download();
$dl->setFile(’../hidden/download.tgz’);
$dl->setContentDisposition(HTTP_DOWNLOAD_ATTACHMENT, ‘latest.tgz’);
$dl->setContentType(’application/x-gzip’);
$dl->send();
This will send the zipped files latest.tgz, in the example of course you or you can name that file what you like. You can also send arbritrary data (from the db) and throttle your download to conserve bandwidth.
Articles […]

International PHP Magazine - Cutting-Edge Technologies for Web Professionals - News
This issue contains my second International PHP Magazine article “Tuning your Strings with PHP5″ where, in an attempt to rid scripts of unnessesary regular expressions, I wade through many of the nearly 100 string handling functions in PHP5.
Other topics include “Accessing eBay […]

Davezilla - Daily humor, tomfoolery and monkeyshines » Label instructions
US company sells clothes in France with the following on the tag:
1. Wash with warm water
2. Use mild soap
3. Dry flat
4. Do not use bleach
5. Do not dry in the dryer
[…]

Game News - Half Life 2 Gold - Yahoo! Games Domain
Wouldn’t have normally blogged about such a trivial event, except that the last line in this paragraph made me chuckle.
“Half-Life 2 has surpassed our expectations in every sense — its high-quality graphics, ground-breaking physics and immersive first-person shooter gameplay set a new standard for PC […]

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET
Pretty cool webhosting

[NOTE] Since posting this article I’ve been informed that the company has discontinued this product and is developing thier own proprietary IM system. Because of this I’ve removed references to the company from this blog entry.
Here’s a two-bit internet advertising company who rips off the work of an Open Source project, claims it as their […]

Free Programming and Computer Science Books
Topic says it all

OK, here’s a real groaner that I just came up with…
Psychosymantec — A virus that exists only in the mind of the victim
Common usage:
Phone: I was away from my computer for 5 minutes and I think somone hacked me an installed a virus. Now booting up the comptuer takes much longer, and I think the […]

Left Justified
Awesome WP site!