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Is it football season yet?
And by football – I mean American Football. Here is a football purse found at my local Walgreens. It’s a keeper for ya’ll female football fans!
Avatar in IMAX 3D
So I finally got to watch Avatar in IMAX 3D! Let me tell you what an experience it was – an awesome movie with a great story line. The cherry on top was the 3D glasses you get to wear (but not to keep); the 3D effects were pretty mindblowing. Remember when Jurrasic Park came [...]
php session_start() issues for php captcha
I was going nuts (banging my head on my desk) because I just couldn’t figure out why session variables weren’t being stored after submitting a form with php captcha (http://www.phpcaptcha.org). I looked through the settings, http headers, check my validation code, almost everything just for a simple form to submit after a user enters the [...]
Sanitation dept melting snow away
As I went about my daily commute to work, I saw an entire New York City block blocked off to melt snow. Below is a picture I took of a snow melting machine (not sure what the real name of this machine is). Snow is thrown into this unit from the top – which then [...]
full-text index issue in mysql 5
I was having issues with full-text index using MySQL 5. Basically, on one host I would see results with the same query but not on another host. Here is the sample query I used: SELECT * from table_name WHERE MATCH(Description, Title) AGAINST (‘yes” IN BOOLEAN MODE) AND title like ‘%yes%’ ; Because the length of [...]
Golden Potatoes
We’ve all heard about gold going above $1000 an ounce but even Golden mashed potatoes? Hey folks at Walmart, what were you thinking?
Pyamod concerns around investor property
I’ve been reading articles on blogs, forums, websites about the scams and frauds that are hitting Dubai real estate market, specifically on a German Company named Pyamod. Does anyone know if this holds true; if so, what would one do or need to contact to get their investment money back? Has anyone else had this [...]
Free code editors
*update* This question comes up many times, do you know of any HTML software or text to HTML software I can download online for free? Well, I usually use Dreamweaver, but since this costs money, I figure I’ll ask this to my web friends. I came up with the best one: NotePad ++ Here are [...]
