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Monthly Archives: December 2004
Friday the 13th asteroid will miss the Earth
A couple of days ago I wrote about an asteroid that had about a 2 percent chance of impacting the Earth on April the 13, 2029; a Friday. New observations now rule out a possible collision. Using pictures from last … Continue reading
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PHP: A function to return the first n words from a string
Do you ever find yourself needing to shorten a string in PHP? Maybe return the first 25 words of a long story? Give this routine a try. It will return the first n words from a string, or the entire … Continue reading
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Multiple cases for switch construct
Looking at the PHP documentation, it is not clear how to add multiple values for the same case in a switch construct. It seems that you should be able to do But, you can’t. I tried, and it didn’t work. … Continue reading
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13 million downloads for FireFox since November
Open-source FireFox is putting pressure on Microsoft’s dominance of the browser market with over 13 million downloads since November. A companion email program, Thunderbird, was released earlier this month.
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Talk about an unlucky Friday the 13th
An asteroid has been rated as a level four threat to the Earth on a scale out of 10. This marks the first time that an asteroid has been rated higher than 1. Currently, there is a 1 in 45 … Continue reading
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A quick PHP function to get Post, Get, or Session variables; and Cookies too
It should be pretty easy to get $_GET, $_POST, $_SESSION, or $_COOKIE variables in PHP code. The problem is that just entering $_GET['variable'] causes an error if the variable does not exist. What’s needed is a way to open the … Continue reading
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America tops the list of top spammers
Sophos, a UK based research group, recently released statistics putting Ameria square at the top of the list of spamming countries at 42.1%. South Korea is in second place with 13.4%; with China, Canada, and Brazil filling out the top … Continue reading
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Tips to keep your email address away from spammers
If you have a online presence, whether it’s personal or business, you most likely are looking for input back from your visitors. But, be careful if you put your email address in a simple mailto: link. You will get spam, … Continue reading
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America Online sees a decrease in spam this year
America Online may not be winning the war against spam, but it they may at least be making a run at it. AOL is claiming a dramatic decline in spam volume for the first time in 5 years.
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Syntax highlighting code in WordPress blogs
Since several of my posts have source code in them, I needed a way to syntax highlight. I found a pretty good one for PHP code, but it didn’t do anything else. While working on an article for a JavaScript … Continue reading
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