I had quite a surprising encounter while walking to lunch today. As we were crossing the street near the post office I made eye contact with a woman crossing towards us. We both looked at each other realizing that we knew each other and just waiting for our brain’s to process the information. I somewhat […]
A piece today on the Motely Fool analyzes the cost of Satellite versus Cable television. Not surprisingly, satellite TV is less expensive, has seen smaller price increases, and has more satisfied customers. Despite deceiving advertising about satellite’s reliability — the cable industry would have you believe you’ll lose your satellite picture every time the wind
Stupid region controls on video games. Why can I import the Japanese version of Winning Eleven 6 for the Gamecube but not the European version of International Superstar Soccer 3? Looks like I’m either going to have to move out of the USA, where instead we get crap soccer games like SEGA Soccer Slam and
Sometimes CNN is funnier than the Onion, as illustratated by this story about a shocking revelation by a TV watchdog group. The Parents Television Council issued a study finding that CSI is the least family-friendly show on TV. Well – no fricking duh, Einstein. Last time I checked it didn’t look like it was geared
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Really good set of guidelines for writing php libraries that others might be able to use can be found at LaughingMeme.
There are those who like to see the occasional big team that’s coming through town and who don’t have any real allegiance to a particular team. It may be Juventus in a friendly or Brazil coming to play in a tournament. I have cousing like this in Bolivia who don’t attend domestic league matches but
Some people hate when a blog is just a collection of links to other places but here goes… You can now support Mozilla projects by buying stuff from the Mozilla activism shop Why you should switch to Mozilla’sThunderbird browser on Windows on DKR Productions: These are all great reasons, and should be enough to convince
An interesting article on IBMP’s developer works site touches on how to Take Web data analysis to the next level with PHP. I was expecting an article geared toward getting more interesting metrics out of site access logs but the article focused on using chi-square tests with nominal data like survey results. This article was
Today is Staci’s birthday so if you see her or have a chance to drop her an email, wish her a happy one! PS – it’s also Bolivia’s independence day today.