Today saw this nerd out and about in the real world of bad drivers and crowded aisles instead of the virtual one of horses and magical swords. Armed with a list and a mission we embarked upon a journey of spending money. This journey was a success. Maryanne seemed determined...

Well, by tomorrow I will have had Bell’s Palsy for one week. Let me say that it is a very strange experience. For those who do not know Bell’s Palsy is allow me to indulge. Bell’s Palsy is a condition that causes temporary paralysis on one side of your face....

Just wanted to post up a couple of pictures of what Maryanne and the girls worked on today. We had gone to Hobby Lobby to find some craft-ie kind of stuff for the kids to do, and came across a neat ceramic paint set. It contains three ceramic pigs, going...

If you’ve ever used PHP, you’ve probably used, or at least seen, the PRINTF and/or SPRINTF functions. These oldie, but goodie, functions are stolen… err… borrowed from the old C language world. Both functions support the abililty to have placeholders, which when evaluated, are replaced with the value in a...

Just wanted to post a little blurb stating that I downloaded Google Chrome last night. My first impressions are positive overall. As I understand it the browser is built primarily off Webkit, a technology that not only drive’s the Mac OSX Safari browser, but several other Mac OSX products. So...

I downloaded the demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed today on my PS3. I am pretty big fan of Star Wars in general, and I have awaited this particular release for a long time now. Yes, I’ve already pre-purchased the game, but I went ahead and downloaded the demo...

If you happen to be one of us who do web-based application development you may have at least heard the rumblings of Javascript 2, the successor to the current Javascript implementation supported by major browsers, and used more and more with the advent of the buzz word “Web 2.0” over...

For those that know me, you probably know I’m a big Metal fan, and with that comes being a Metallica fan (at least in my book it does). Here is a video from the recent Ozzfest of their new song, Cyanide.