CNN.com – Paris Hilton reportedly engaged to shipping heir – May 31, 2005
OK, this is too funny not to “report” on.
Paris Hilton is engaged to Paris Latsis. Presumably Paris will change her name to Latsis, and they will name their first son after the father (Paris Latsis Jr.) and their first daughter after the mother (Paris Latsis), a simple naming scheme which even Paris should be able to remember.
OK, so I’m computerless for the next 3 days! That means if I promised that I would get back to you or have a project completed by friday it won’t happen!!! I can’t even access my webmail!
So what do you do without a computer, well to tell you the truth, I’m not totally computer-less, I have my faithful Zaurus which I can do the REALLY essential things with (blog, irc, etc). But still I’m going to have to find other activities to fill the time I would usually be on the computer. I’ve already shaved my head (pictures coming), and have gotta catch ROTS (/me chuckles at the Sithilus joke on userfriendly.org), going to the beach (+34 today) and of course spending time with the family. And I’ve got several books to finish, and my website to complete.
That should be enough for the weekend.
OK, now on my ongoing “series” about how I plan to get rich and famous (at least rich) I’m looking at adsense and see that the Asbestos Blogger (as featured in this Slashdot article) still has Asbestos adsense ads on his blog. Although I can’t imagine Google is letting him have any money from it.
Anyway, moving on… the latest blog entry comes from foldedspace.org and takes you through a long and boring step-by-step example for how you can “Get Rich Slowly“.
It’s worth a read.
Pretty funny, you’d think that google would cover their asses when it comes to stuff like this.
I’ve just got my copy of ACT! 2005 Premium for Workgroups, which looks a WHOLE lot better than ACT 6, which honesty isn’t very hard. With the “Premium for Workgroups” version comes a copy of Microsoft SQL Server, which I’ve actually been wanting to test a couple of PHP apps on.
I’m downloading the ACT! SDK, hopefully it won’t be too painful to whip up a couple of PHP scripts which will interact with it using COM or a Webservice, I’ll be clearer once I finish digging through the SDK.
The project is to set up ACT to become the central repository for Client Sites to be used by the client sales team. To do this, ACT will need to hold and stay in sync with customer data from several home grown PHP/MySQL based websites.
The choice to use ACT wasn’t mine, and I put some effort into exploring free alternative systems (specifically sugarCRM) however ACT! 2005 was settled on, and from a cursory review looks fairly promising.
If anyone has any experience with interacting with ACT! 2005 from PHP or knows of any projects which do this, I would be interested in hearing about it.
– just listening to Emmanuel Goldstein’s 2600 Off the Hook… 6000 US deserters last year… that really is an incredible number.
In my on-going quest to get-rich-quick, I ran into Adsense for Feeds! Google does it again!
Read this blog entry for more information.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Jackson team turns heat on mother
What a joke! This has GOT to be some sort of reality TV stunt.
I can see it now… the jury comes out of the deliberation room…
Judge: The court notes the presence of counsel and the jury. Has the jury reached a verdict?
Jury Foreman: We have
Clerk takes verdict from foreman to judge
Judge: I hereby find the defendant, Michael Jackson … pause for effect … PUNK’d
Learning Movable Type: How to Make Money with Your Blog
Wow! Finally I can get rich quick!!! Gotta check it out sometime! Until then, just paypal me your money!
So it’s the Eurovision Song Contest, and “I-wanna-be-jlo” Greece is currently doing their thing, so I figured it was a good time to step out for a bit of blogging…
What’s with all the drums? 8 out of 10 acts have a set of kettle drums on stage? Obvoiusly the fact that last years winners were a big dance and drum number affected that, but it really is a bit crazy.
My favorite is Ukraine, it’s the only real song so far, not going to win, but at least they had heart. That guy from norway was by far the worst, I think they couldn’t make up their mind if they were going to be KISS, Queen, Marlyn Manson or one of the Village People .
The guy who clapped with his feet was good too 
UPDATE
Thankfully it’s over. These things are hard to predict, but I think the winner will be between Malta, Denmark, and Latvia. Ukraine will get a lot of good votes.
UPDATE II
J-Lo from Greece won 
Sauerkraut gestalt weiner dorkin blitz, ya er lookinpeepers sauerkraut. Hans, der an verboten underbite ist yodel bin wunderbar bar. Ich stoppern, ich yodel, blimp corkin, rubberneckin. Glockenspiel thinken spitzen oompaloomp, poppin buerger die auf corkin. Sie auf buerger spitzen yodel spitzen makin der das. In unter weiner spritz floppern, undervear das uber blitz rubberneckin das sauerkraut.
Uber das ich an und hans weiner nicht er das deutsch deutsch. Uber hinder makin stoppern, haben lookinpeepers an sightseerin. Er frankfurter der auf, und ich lookinpeepers. Ich pukein pretzel, ist, blitz cuckoo wearin, gestalt mitz heiden du mitz er, keepin er. Poppin buerger die, weiner octoberfest, noodle, verboten und. Spitzen octoberfest, dorkin verboten, haben flippin. Underbite in dummkopf gewerkin biergarten, achtung, corkin glockenspiel morgen achtung noodle.
Uber kaboodle, pukein nicht oompaloomp achtung corkin nine, oompaloomp verboten, nicht makin.
Nine, floppern wearin deutsch ker sightseerin pukein gewerkin makin. Yodel, sightseerin corkin das die heinee biergarten pretzel. Lookinpeepers noodle sauerkraut und buerger das gewerkin gestalt gewerkin, spritz keepin nicht spritz zur. Footzerstompen der undervear stoppern, flippin pretzel cuckoo poken heiden gewerkin spitzen an sparkin wunderbar. Er in waltz sauerkraut hast, sightseerin floppern heinee zur leiderhosen sie rubberneckin.
Thanks to the GreekMachine
Check it out! Pretty cool stuff, I wonder when I’ll be able to add my own RSS feeds, that would make it totally rawk!
Another thing that would be neat would be to check more than one gmail account.
Quote of the day: Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. — John Lehman
Hi Dad, The VI Mode | Linux Gazette
Read sometime… my VIM book is in the mail
deviantART: powerdraw by ~Diamonster
A drawing that i used mspaint to draw with alittle photophop bluring, it is more than 500 hours work on that one no template eyes work little story about this drawing it was a fews years ago that picture was on a calender i found it out very nice so i decided to draw it but i did’nt know how to use softwares so i used the very basic mspaint to do it this is a second drawing that i did this way the first one was reconized by microsoft. Nhat vinh ly your comments are pleased and very apprecited”
Pretty awesome work! Now someone needs to turn this into an animated GIF.
Great reference source for all-things-statistical.
Some great quotes on the front page as well as this nice formula sheet, great spreadsheet humor, and this GREAT VBA Humor page.
I can’t help but pasting a couple:
Dim Wit, TheLights
Public Nudity As Graphic
Dim Julian As Boolean, King As String, Kong As Long
Actor = Val(Kilmer)
We had a fantastic initial PHP UG meeting last night. Darren Cooper had acquired the use of a computer lab at FH (University of Applied Sciences) and nine people showed up. After a bit of chit-chat, getting to know each other and looking through the books that different people had brought with them, we had 2 presentations.
Using material prepared by Toby, Stephan Schmidt and Aidan, I presented PEAR and gave a quick overview of some of the interesting packages (HTML_Quickform, MDB2, Error/Error_Stack), as well as a quick look at PECL things (PDO, XMLWriter, and Tidy). Darren gave the next presentation about using COM with PHP to write a front end for Microsoft’s Index Server. A very nice talk which covered some rarely-seen PHP goodness, as well as some not-entirely-evil stuff from Microsoft.
After the discussing our next meeting, and getting a “volunteer” to update the website, we headed off to a local bar for a couple drinks and a lot more PHP talk.
We have a couple talks lined up for the next few meetings, one on Webservices in PHP5, Thorsten volunteered to give an “off-topic” talk on issues surrounding the creation of an online radio station, and there was a possibility for a talk on indexing documents using non-windows based platforms.
This meeting re-enforced the fact in my mind, that you don’t need to go to exotic conferences to hear about how PHP coders are using cutting edge technology in their everyday work. More than likely there is someone doing something cool right where you are, if not, then they probably think what you are doing is cool. Either way, find where they are, put together a couple presentations (as opposed to just chatting and drinking beer), and have fun.
So when’s your next UG meeting?
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