Lifestream: Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Better late than never.
I got an email from eNom, apparently not a scam as far as I can tell.
This message is a reminder to help you keep the contact data associated with your domain registration up-to-date.
As of October 31, 2003 we are required by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to send you this reminder [...]
The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Robert W. Hefner (Editor). University of Hawaii Press. 2001. Paperback 319 pages. ISBN: 0824824873.
Few challenges to the modern dream of democratic citizenship appear greater than the presence of severe ethnic, religious, and linguistic divisions in society. With their diverse religions and ethnic communities, [...]
Just cosmetic changes as well as a new SELECT statement using UNIX_TIMESTAMP to facilitate conversion and display of temporal data. It’s amazing what you can do without actually leaving MYSQL. Calculating the time difference between a stored value and “now()” is strikingly simple: ( UNIX_TIMESTAMP( now() ) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP( played ) ). It is now [...]
I just thought I saw the first flakes of snow passing by outside my window. What a lovely way to start a day.
The script was just a constant layout accident waiting to happen. So instead of stripping tags blindly, i.e. $text = strip_tags($text); I did this.
$text = preg_replace( “/(?\s]+)/i”, “”, $text );
$text = strip_tags($text, ‘‘);
$text = preg_replace( “//”, ” “, $text );
There is probably a more clever way to do it, but then again I’m no PHP [...]
Wow. That was about time. BitMe.org has proven to be, by far, the most difficult Torrent community to join. I caught a lucky break this weekend though.
BitMe embodies all that is great with P2P, the promise of broadening the public mind, keeping information free and accessible. BitMe is an e-learning only tracker. Essentially that means, [...]
Swedish consumer watchdog Råd och Rön did a comparison study of beds for their October printed issue. Bottom line? Beds are hyped and the field is riddled with quasi-scientific claims. From a purely technical perspective, it doesn’t matter which bed or brand you get. For instance, IKEA ranked equal to the much snootier HÄSTENS, which [...]
The Idea of India. Sunil Khilnani. ISBN 0141014261. Paperback, Penguin, 304 pages.
(Amazon) Khilnani (politics, Univ. of London) offers a penetrating analysis of the spread of democracy to ever more diverse segments of the Indian body politic. Juxtaposed to this trend is the breakup of the Congress Party’s hegemony and the subsequent growth of regional political [...]
Excessive Nucleus plugins kill. Top ten database tables by size.
nucleus_plugin_referrer_cache 6.2 MB
nucleus_item 5.2 MB
videodata 2.9 MB
nucleus_plugin_referrer 1.7 MB
nucleus_plugin_querylog 1.4 MB
cpg11d_exif 1.2 MB
nucleus_comment 713 KB
nucleus_plug_seo 418 KB
cpg11d_pictures 243 KB
amipsql 172 KB
The “amipsql” table is obviously the data being uploaded from Winamp. The total database in over 20 MB now. Half of that being plugins. Referrer and Querylog are nice but are they essential? Hardly. They can [...]
So I picked up Ravenous the other day. Trust BitTorrent and P2P to find rare horror gems eh. Quite a decent movie nevertheless with an apt allegory that I thought I’d mention. I mean, being on such friendly terms with the US and everything.
Richard von Busack - The evangelizing head cannibal is a military officer [...]
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