Monthly Archives: October 2006

Dude, where’s our horse?

I rate this a 10 for poise but a 6 for preparation.

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Writing a REST Webservice: part 3 “Implementation”

Wow. Forgive the hiatus on this article! Onto part 3: implementing a REST webservice in PHP.

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Advice for Jerks

Guy Kawasaki reviews a book about being a more civilized employee and gives some excellent tips on being a better person. As usual, his advice can easily be applied in non-business areas, because it’s all about interpersonal interactions. The golden … Continue reading

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Cue Patrick Stewart!

Mr. Peters, engage! Friday I asked my special ladyfriend of over a year to marry me. She accepted! Thursday night I prefaced our date Friday with the notion that we were finally going to celebrate our one year anniversary (a … Continue reading

Posted in friends/family/loved ones | 9 Comments

Back That Thing Up!

The BBC is reporting that copyright laws are out of date and in need of changing. Slowly but surely it seems that the message is getting out to the masses that copyright is broken. Individuals deserve a right to back … Continue reading

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Who Owns Links?

Every once in a while on the web, some company decides to declare ridiculous terms for linking to them such as the Boston School of Electrolysis. Hypertext addresses (read: URLs are essentially public property. All URLs are technically governed by … Continue reading

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Good catch, Department of Justice!

<sarcasm>Whew! I just want to applaud the Department of Justice’s webmaster (or webmaster group). It’s a good thing you closed the hole that allowed automated checking of sex offenders. You really showed those evil hackers who the boss is by … Continue reading

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Javascript Logging

Today I wrote a handy-dandy snippet of Javascript to allow me to use Firebug-style logging for non-Firebug browsers. This is great for keeping track of things in Javascript, though its woefully underpowered compared to Firebug. Here’s the initial code: window.console … Continue reading

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Podcast + Song about zombies + Freely distributable music (for non-commercial use) = Happy day

I mentioned via email to a few of my close friends about this great song (see below) featured in a great podcast How To Succeed in Evil. One particular episode featured the song Re: Your Brains by Jonathon Coulton. He … Continue reading

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Neat!

TamperData has a neat graph function.

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