"There's just no sugarcoating it, the man's testicles were bleeding." Oh, thank you, Joel McHale of The Soup, for watching that crap so I don't have to.

Here is a nice little function which uses regular expressions to easily add highlighting to search terms in html output. Useful for your own site's search feature, of course. But you could also do things like parse the HTTP_REFERER for a search query string and highlight those terms in your page, or offer related content in a sidebar module ( Read more... )

So I left a random blog basically empty but unsecured and with comments enabled. For two and a half years. I finally got around to disabling comments and found that I had 15,000. Gmail had been bundling them so it hadn't flooded me so much that I could be bothered to fix it. 100 at a time, that's only one slot in my inbox, which I check ( Read more... )

I had a real bad time when I killed my Mac Mini. It was so beautiful, it had a life of such promise ahead of it ( Read more... )

the tip of my left big toe has a persistent itch

Actually from Mad magazine. I wrote a little php to generate a "Dear John" letter per Mad magazine's specs. See the result here. It's mildly amusing.
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Yay, I'm back in form. Just hit 300 wins and 99 losses. Given that I started with 100-50, that means I've been winning 80% for the last 250 games. I'd call that statistically significant.

Ghost of Stephen Foster by the Squirrel Nut ZippersI'm horribly sick. So's my whole family. It was funny, everybody talking in whispers. When something's funny, we all laugh, then we all cough. Bad, wracking coughs. Still haven't been back to work. Haven't been in the office for a month now ( Read more... )

My father may be on his deathbed. I mean it literally. He may not get up again. Today we discontinued chemotherapy and he declined a scan to see what may be in his brain, which could be radiated to perhaps restore some cognitive function. We're calling family to come visit. I came along to see the doctor today, because I wanted to be there and ( Read more... )

Follow my drive to work with the Google Earth plugin! It's cool beans. Most of it is along Kanan Road into Malibu ( Read more... )