A Day in Paradise

SWindows Live Mail - Mini Review
Check that out!

Mini-review at this awesome Spell Checking blog *cough* *cough*
Looks cool

The news has broken in a report on PHP-Center that the traditional annual PHP Spring Conference in Amsterdam has been cancelled this year. Because of the World Cup, people from all over the world will be flooding into Amsterdam, this influx of tourists has created a shortage of some of the essential ingrediants without which […]

larry ellison - Google Search
Google picked some nice images here

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
This is probably one of the funniest movies I’ve seen this year. The title pretty much sums up the premise of the movie, there aren’t a whole lot of big surprises as far as the plot goes, but it’s still an enjoyable watch.
We watched the 133 minute unrated version, which […]

welcome our new music listening, game playing, media sharing, internet browsing, graphically challenged windows vista overlords!

MySQL AB :: Coding and Indexing Strategies for Optimal Performance
Must watch sometime

And the thunder!

The first Monday of Daylight Savings Time. It always sucks loosing an hour of sleep, but then again I get the benefit of sitting in my kitchen with my coffee just in time to watch the sun come up.
Another weekend gone by too quickly. On the list of things that didn’t get done was to […]

Cool program thanks to My Heritage Happy Weekend
Update (this is too much fun!)

Stella is in Great company… mine is bit iffy :S

World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online
And finally a bit of good news…
Three Western peace workers held hostage in Iraq, including retired British professor Norman Kember, were freed today in a special forces operation near Baghdad after four months in captivity.
Details of the operation early this morning are still […]

Great for front controllers - courtesy of Wordpress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /frontcontroller.php?foo=$1 [L]

Indices
So Barra stopped updating their historical S&P numbers last November. This leaves me having to update 30+ product deployments which have been cut off from thier benchmark datasource.
I’ll admit it was rather silly to make my application dependant on a single source of information which I didn’t have control over. In hindsight it’s obvious that […]

I’m not sure if anyone has anyone run into this, or has a better solution to this problem. What I’ve been doing is simply saving the document as an HTML and then grabbing the JPG or PNG image.
Is there a correct way to do this?

Google Finance
At first glance google’s new financial portal looks like another catch-up attempt to offer an alternative to a Yahoo! service. However, once you get past the simple front page, the individual stock pages are quite impressive.
Using a mix of Flash and AJAX, Google finance mixes the stock charts with their news service, allowing users […]