The Minority Report

..for my PHP application! I’m downloading this later and testing it out. I’ll report back. Google Pagerank in PHP : CodeDiesel Mark Woodman has created a nifty class which lets you query Google pagerank info in PHP 5 and above. The complete classes are available here.

Doing the daily reading and stopped dead in my tracks…. No idea what the article is about but I damned near killed my fingers moving the mouse to read the damned thing! Now it’s a tragedy that this young girl died but it just reinforced in my mind that hot chicks sell stuff, even blog [...]

Red Dwarf cast to be reunited | Media | guardian.co.uk The cast of hit sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf are to reunite for a new two-part storyline which will see them finally return to Earth. It will sit alongside two further new episodes – the improvised Red Dwarf: Unplugged, which will feature the cast dealing with [...]

So I’m trolling around the net looking for “dofollow” blogs, the latest thing to do to build traffic, and I find this site with a list of 562 dofollow blogs in RSS format.  Sweet.  Let’s face it, I have been trying the whole Adsense, Adwords, affiliate marketing thing for about 2.5 years now and I [...]

I love evolution and the early development and migration of humans. I thought this article was pretty cool, using bacteria to track their movements. Not Exactly Rocket Science : Bacteria and languages reveal how people spread through the Pacific The Austronesian people originated in Taiwan some 5,000 years ago. After a few centuries of settlement, [...]

I’ve mentioned that I love the Waiterrant blog. Dude hit the “jackpot” with his book and I recommend that you pick it up. Nice blog, around a while. Anyway, I loved this quote today, “Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy”“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy”. Very nice. Vodka & [...]

I don’t know if you knew about this but I didn’t and I totally could have saved myself hours of searching for huge boobers with this neat little hack. Just put in your imagesize into the ol’ Google Image Search and walla! How to search with Google for specific image sizes (icons 32×32 or wallpapers [...]

Continuing my discussion of RAID, this review on the new Intel X25-E Extreme SSDW drives in a RAIDW configuration is amazing. A look at four X25-E Extreme SSDs in RAID – The Tech Report – Page 1 Intel’s X25-E Extreme SSD is far and away the fastest flash drive we’ve ever tested. Sure, it only [...]

Jesus, this dude did some research on USB drive speed. My little snip and clip doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Here are a few snapshots but hit the link for mindblowing USB drive on USB drive action. USB Flash Drive Comparison part 2 – FAT32 vs NTFS vs ExFAT Ok, a little while [...]

NICE!! I wish I could remember how I got to this site today but these are some cool scripts. I didn’t post the list but definitely click on the link to get some awesome SEO scripts, information and ideas. Blackhat, Bluehat, whitehat, whatever freaking hat you are wearing, we all benefit from knowledge like this. [...]

I don’t know if you saw this or not, of course since I’m writing to myself these days probably not, but I do a lot of WordPressW stuff and looking for a decent WordPress plugin for Social tagging and bookmarking for this site, I found the Open Share Icon Project. The Open Share Icon Project [...]

…metaphorically speaking. What a great title to a blog post! Even better quote. Dylan Beattie’s Blog: A Rant about RAID, with a Bad Metaphor about Eggs, and No Happy Ending. You know your whole eggs & baskets thing, right? SATA RAID is like carefully dividing your eggs into two really good baskets, then tying them [...]

All I can say is…wow. Slava Akhmechet hit it right on the head with this post. I too struggle with “perfectionism” and over thinking things constantly. I get really excited about a project or an idea, write it down in my notebook and then nothing ever seems to happen. Or I start and then as [...]

Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch – washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate passed a bill on Monday to delay the nationwide switch to digital TV signals, giving consumers nearly four more months to prepare. The transition date would move to June 12 from February 17 under the bill that was fueled by [...]

I’m headed out to Home Depot right now to pick up a case of liquid nitrogen… AMD Phenom II Overclocked to 6.5GHz During CES a group of overclockers with access to liquid nitrogen and liquid helium for the extra boost of coldness cools an AMD Phenom II X4 chip to -232 degrees Celsius. Once they [...]