Monthly Archives: December 2008

I decided to sell my Kindle last night at midnight. It was pretty spontaneous for me. Here I have this device that’s going for over $400 on eBay and for some reason I have been hanging onto it adding yet … Continue reading →

So I was recently cleaning up my computer inspired by the recent acquisition of an external terabyte drive when I selected the wrong partition to delete. *pause for mourning* Fortunately I backed up the important stuff like family photos and … Continue reading →

Merry Christmas to everyone. May all your family and friends prosper another year. May the next year bring you more joy and happiness (and all the other cursory well wishing). I give you a gift in the form of an … Continue reading →

I’ve been snowed in since Tuesday and it’s been fantastic to stay home, work over VPN, hang with the wife and kids, and enjoy this weather. I can’t imagine anything more gentle in terms of forcing us to all slow … Continue reading →

Ever wonder how to get a revision number of a file or other CVS tags to appear on PHP pages? I did and here’s what I came up with: $revision = “$Revision: 1.111 $”; $revision = trim($revision, “$”); $revision = … Continue reading →

You know, I won’t regurgitate a length post on this topic because there are so many other ones out there. I just wanted to jot down some little snags I ran into while installing these onto a Windows XP system. … Continue reading →

It took me 2 hours to get to work today so I am a little shook up. The work on the second Narrows Bridge has started a new phase in which the workers are raising and attaching sections of the … Continue reading →

I am sure some of you old time programmers were quite aware of the STATIC keyword. I however, have recently discovered it. I had used it sporadically in C and other languages but never in PHP. STATIC basically maintains the … Continue reading →

It’s snowing and it’s a beautiful thing. Fife started out kind of light starting Wednesday but with the weather folks warming us of the impending snow apocalypse our work told us to work from home. It ended up not really … Continue reading →