To anticipate and prevent
So for along time now I’ve been running both Awstats and Google Analytics on my domain here. Mainly I watch Google Analytics because it provides me with much more “real” data. That being said Awstats has its uses too. Today I’ve been taking a look at both of them and I though I’d share what…
I’ve never been one to use mysqli in PHP, I’ve never needed to. Recently though, I’ve started using stored procedures, which necessitated the move to mysqli. Now, this really isn’t that big of a deal. After all, a search and replace of mysql_ with mysqli_ and adding the connection flag, and you are good. Here’s…
On slashdot this morning there was an article about a new website called TinEye. They’ve got a fairly simple but cool concept. Do for images what google does for web pages. You give TinEye an image and their magical search engine goes and finds similar images to what you give it — based solely on…
Penguins are awesome!!! So I went to Monterey on Tuesday with Lauren and Ange. The trip was mostly for them, I just happened to be there (and driving). I have to say that traffic going down there on a weekday morning was much less than I expected (which was pleasantly surprising). We started, of course,…
The other day I left the Bay and headed up to Tahoe. Only here very briefly, but I had begged and pleaded with John to let me try out his motorcycle, and eventually he agreed. Yes, I’ve ridden a motorcycle before, in the safety class… but you never get out of third gear, and you…
I’ve been wanting a new iPod for a long time. Well, it didn’t _have_ to be an iPod because most of my music these days comes from Amazon (thank god for 256kbit MP3s). Though it is fair to say that iPods are still the best portable music player on the market. Plus if you go…