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Toasting Marshmallows on a Corn Chip Grease-Fire

// November 23rd, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Misc

Neat, isn’t it? Tortilla chips, apparently, burn quite well if you put a match to them. If you take 2 to 3 of them and (taking the proper safety precautions) set them on fire, they will burn brilliantly for several minutes, giving you ample time to toast a marshmallow or two.
Corn chips (the Medallion brand [...]

Undefined Functions in Object-Oriented PHP

// March 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Tech

Just had a big “duh” moment.
Have you ever had a PHP method (a function inside a class, in case you’re new to the whole OOP thing) cause a “Fatal Error: Call to undefined function ‘whatever’…” even though you are 100% sure that the method has been defined?
You’re missing the $this-> before your call to the [...]

Bandwidth Caps

// February 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Tech

Here’s an idea, how about all of these ISPs use one bandwidth cap formula:
x * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30, where x would be the speed of the internet connection.
There’s no point in selling someone 30mb/sec cable internet access if they can still only download as much data as I can on my [...]

Apparently Bill Gates Still Wants to Give You Money

// November 19th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Misc

The “Bill Gates wants to give you $10,000,000″ email scam still isn’t dead. How many years has it been? I just got this spam email today:
Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Wrights Lane,
Kensington London W85SP,
England UNITED KINGDOM
FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.
It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise
but please find time to [...]

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