OK mes enfants... my hand-rolled blog engine project ("Phosphoros") is tight enough that I'm pretty much done with LJ. Find me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, subscribe to my rss feed... I think I have it fixed up at mindfire.net/ for auto-discovery on IE or older Firefoxes, there are auto-discovery extensions for newer Firefoxes and maybe ( Read more... )

( some things that have been bugging me )

Blogspot/Blogger, TypePad: are services, not software.
Movable Type: GPL, Perl/MySQL (Wikipedia suggests also some PHP.. messy messy)
WordPress, Drupal, Joomla: all GPL, PHP/MySQL (w/various app-specific DB options)
Serendipity: BSD, PHP/MySQL (et al.)
Simple PHP Blog, FlatPress: GPL, PHP, flat text file DB ( Read more... )

chrome - eyedropper extension
FF - colorzilla and Total Validator

Peak oil? Peak education

half pints, half-shots? why the half-steppin'

via Digg: For some reason the linked page fell off the namvets.com source site, but thanks to archive.org such calamities need not be mendacious:
John McCain, career puppet: pull his string, and he'll talk out whichever side his mouth you tell him to.
fortunate son of high-brass lineage traded bamboo for golden cage, served VC as songbird for ( Read more... )

Gotta love how the Chrome HTML Validator extension flags errors that the Firefox HTML Validator add-on doesn't, and vice versa.

Google "disable autoplay xp" and the first hit is a MS knowledge base article that delves way the #*&% too deeply into the history of Windows' autoplay, and the various security patches that more or less all fail to provide users with what we REALLY wanted, namely a simple, neat, accessible switch to turn off autoplay completely and entirely for ( Read more... )

UPDATE users SET regdate = FROM_UNIXTIME(regdate,'%m/%d/%Y') WHERE uid < '14797'

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Function DSNless_example(strHost As String, strDB As String, strUName As String, strPwd As String ( Read more... )