January 2009
1 post
February 2008
27 posts
Rugby: Not a Game for Wimps
Rugby union is New Zealand’s national sport. I learned about rugby today. It sounds like American football, without protective gear. A team has 15 players with up to seven reserves. In pro rugby a player can be substituted once, unless they are a front-row specialist player replacing an injured front-row player. There is also a “blood bin”, where a player with a visible and...
“Software that needs documentation is software that needs repair.”
– Russ Nelson
New Zealand's Government, aka "The Beehive"
New Zealand’s official government information is available at a website called “The Beehive.” There you can learn about Prime Minister Helen Clark’s key priorities for 2008. I am still trying to piece together how New Zealand’s government works. So far I know they have a Parliament, a Prime Minister, a Cabinet, and a Governor-General who has something to do with the...
Happy Belated Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day, 6 February, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. This Treaty, often described as New Zealand’s founding document, was an agreement between Maori chiefs and the British Crown, and covered issues of sovereignty, possession and rights of citizenship. Differences ...
NOT Designed by Apple in California →
Patrick Broke His Foot
Favorite quote from WebMD’s chapter on dealing with a broken foot: ” It is always better to prevent broken bones than to treat them.”
MyBlogLog WordPress Plugin →
Get it while it’s hot.
“The early bird may get the worm, but it is the second mouse that gets the...”
– iPhoneHaiku.com
Rain, Hail and Tornados... Oh My!
Here’s a little bit of code that I put together to send SMS/Email alerts about local weather conditions. Worked like a champ last night! http://snipplr.com/view/4917/smsemail-weather-alert/
PHP Tumblr
During the big storm tonight, I found myself checking out the Tumblr API while watching the news to make sure I didn’t need to hide in my bathroom. I’ve been all about PHP wrappers for APIs lately. I whipped up a quick class that grabs a Tumblr account’s data and wrote some functions to do stuff with it. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far. It pretty much recreates...
Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? →
How to handle recurring credit card payments →
Most payment processors have some sort of recurring payment system, but Trust Commerce’s Citadel system gives you full control and flexibility without the liability of storing your customer’s credit card information. And the software is rad.
Unboxing a new Apple IIc →
We’ve all seen the photos of Apple fanboys unboxing the latest products… the iPhone, the MacBook Air, etc. How about an Apple IIc?
Books that make you dumb →
Or more accurately, books that dumb people read. Despite the title’s logical fallacy, I love the idea of harvesting data from social networks to come up with interesting (or, at least amusing) data.
February is International Tumblr Month! →
January 2008
6 posts
As if one needs another reason...
As if one needs another reason to dislike IE6. Today I experienced a new bug. New for me anyway. Internet Explorer fails to render backgrounds and borders for elements that have both an ID and a Class defined. When you have one ID and several classes to choose from, IE6 only applies the background and border info from the first class listed in your css file and ignores the info in all the other...
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New Office
We moved! Our new office is located at: 1910 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37212
MyBlogLog API
I finished implementing a PHP class wrapper for the MyBlogLog API a couple days ago. If anyone is interested, you can visit the project hosted on Google Code: http://php-mybloglog.googlecode.com/ - Jason