Sugar High Friday was an event that I single-handedly started when I was working for Dakotah Direct in Spokane, Washington. Here’s the gist of it (hearts and arteries, beware): Some arbitrary Friday, maybe one Friday a month, there is a suggestion and a mutual consensus to have the Event. There is no overt advertising, simply… Continue reading Sugar High Friday
Month: September 2003
More PHP Errata
Again reading Larry Ullman’s PHP Advanced and finding it okay, but I came across another glaring error. On page 169, in the discussion about variable order, Ullman’s got the variable order entirely backwards. The out-of-the-box order for PHP variables is EGPCS (which refer to Environment, Get, Post, Cookie, and Server variables), meaning that PHP processes… Continue reading More PHP Errata
More Friendster Notes
I’ve noticed from the referrer logs that my earlier Friendster post is the #3 result on Google for the search phrase “Friendster is slow“, so I figured it was high time I revisited Friendster and poke around a bit more, to see what I could find out. It was still slow, but not as fatally… Continue reading More Friendster Notes
Q’s New Toys
Two real-world items that I fully expect to show up in the next James Bond movie: The Skyray and the Aquada Bond.
You might be from the Northwest…
I found this document from February 2000 when going through some old files on the computer and thought it was funny; I think it originally came from some email humor. You might be from the Pacific Northwest if you… 1. Feel guilty about throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash. 2. Use the expression… Continue reading You might be from the Northwest…
So Long Sobig
I checked my email this morning and not a single Sobig-infected message came through. Not one. Just as quickly as it started, it’s over. Very odd. The only thing that makes sense is that there was only one computer infected with Sobig that had my email address on it, and when that user finally patched… Continue reading So Long Sobig
New Ebooks!
On my ebooks page I’ve just linked up two new, modern Palm Reader ebooks by Rob Callahan, who is generously offering these up for free (under the Creative Commons license) on his site, and was nice enough to email me to let me know. Awesome! The more there are current books that can be freely… Continue reading New Ebooks!
Worm Food
Well, it took longer than most cases I’ve heard of, but I’m finally getting deluged with the Sobig email worm. Started yesterday.