Archive for January, 2005

Coolplayer Development Picks up

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

HOME : Coolplayer.Sourceforge.net
So just when I thought that my favorite MP3 player was dead, a new developer joins the team to breathe some life into the project.
His introductory note wasn’t that assuring though…
“I’ve started out with such small changes for 215.1 because i know nothing about C, i know nothing about sound, and i […]

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JibJab’s Childrens Book

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

JibJab.com - Store
So they expect us to buy the kids book without even seeing what is inside? I don’t thinks so!
In other news JibJab’s “Second Term” is up. Not as good as “This Land” but still pretty good.

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N. Korea tells citizens to prepare for war against U.S.

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

News
/me would mention WWIII but that would be waaaay to 80’s.
“The United States has cooked up suspicion over our nuclear programs and is escalating an offensive of international pressure to strangle and destroy our republic,” the booklet said. “If this tactic doesn’t work, it plots to use this (nuclear) problem as an excuse for […]

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Goodness from PHP Magazine

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

It just arrived in my mailbox and it is one of the best editions of PHP Magazine yet. It is unusually PEAR heavy, covering XML_Serializer, Auth_HTTP, and DB_Sqlite_Tools.
Highlights are Stephan Schmidt’s “The XML Knife - Creating and Consuming XML with PEAR::XML_Serializer”, Davey Shafik’s “Automatic Web Services with PHP5″, Ben Ramsey’s “Teaching PHP to say […]

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Evolution on Windows

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

nat friedman
Ooooh, nice!

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Graner sentence

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

CNN.com - Many Iraqis say Graner sentence too lenient - Jan 16, 2005
Check the Poll, it seems the majority of everyone else think otherwise! Maybe the Poll should have read “Have you seen ‘A few good men?’”

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How to change the kitchen tap

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

main.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Today I was greeted by a pipe underneath my kitchen tap litterally exploding. Now I need to find out how to replace the damn thing.
My tap is different from the one shown in the PDF file, but the file is a good reference to anyone who has a tap like that.

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Spam of the Week

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

These guys have NO imagination, certainly deserves the spam of the week award!
4 Wives looking for fun have been matched for you in your area:
1. Megan, 128 lbs, 5′8, 36c, 25 miles away, available Jan 13-16th
2. Megan, 122 lbs, 5′5, 36d, 8 miles away, available most nights (husband works midnights)
3. Megan, 136 lbs, 5′7, 34b, […]

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Sharon suspends contacts with Palestinian Authority - Jan 14, 2005

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

CNN.com - Sharon suspends contacts with Palestinian Authority - Jan 14, 2005
That didn’t take long… cutting off diplomatic ties before the guy is even inaugurated… it seems that Arafat wasn’t the only obsticle to peace in the middle east!
Basing your foreign relation policies on the actions of a handful of militants is no way to […]

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Taking Computers for a Drive

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

Fractured Realities: My Wifes Computer Hates Me
Same thing happened with my computer. Dead as a doornail at home, took it to the shop and it booted up all the way. What I discovered later was that a screw had somehow fixed itself in one of the dips between the case and the mobo, when the […]

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Perspective for 2005

Monday, January 10th, 2005

UserFriendly Strip Comments
Good to remind ourselves every once in a while!

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Name Removed of x is a Spammer

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

I’m putting this under Village Idiots as well, since this guy claims to be a “Search Marketeer”… all X is is just another f*cking Spammer!
Evidence: 137 referrer hits from a www.x.com which doesn’t have any reference to my site.
Anyone who thinks spamming will help you with your SEO or Website marketting should know that […]

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F*cking Spammers — We can Play That Game!

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Alrighty, the spammers have gotten a category all to themselves. This is where I will blog about companies who use blog/referrer spam to try to up their PR or get incoming links!
The goal is to get the blog entries to rank higher than the company website, giving anyone who searches for the company a good […]

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Find unsecured Webcams on Google

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Graffë Forums - Computers - Unsecure networks Google = fun
A LOT of fun to be had here!!!

Search for yourself

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$2004++

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

So here I am, counting all the geeky things I’ve done this year. I’ve written a lot, met a lot of great people, changed jobs and countries, and even managed to squeeze in a bit of coding.
I wrote three articles for the International PHP Magazine, 28 PHP Barnstormer news updates. In September, I completed a […]

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