03/22/05 11:03 - ID#31763

Argh that is exactly what I was making

I hate when that happens. I was totally going to develop that exact same thing when I saw it

on (e:shawnr) 's journal [inlink]shawnr,53[/inlink] . I am convinced that there is nothing new in the world. I think I will still work on it, I will just need a new slant.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/21/05 06:51 - ID#31762

Grilling On The Go

So I get a call this afternoon from a local company that I had developed a web site for about 3 years ago. If you are looking for a grill and want to buy it from a local company, you should check them out

. The factory is located right here in Buffalo on Niagara St and the prices are really cheap.

It was a fun project, back then I was using perl. The entire shopping cart system, notification system was done in perl. I wish I had had PHP back then. Today, I part of it that was having an issue, so I redid it in PHP. Wow, did the code look nicer and much shorter not to mention that I did not have to worry about UNIX line returns on the dos machine I am using for development. What is even crazier is that the server admin didn't even think he had PHP on the server.

I love PHP and anyone who says that PHP is like a little baby language is so wrong - it keeps getting bigger and better and is perfectly tailored for web development. It is fully capable of developing high end web applications. If you have used PHP up to version 4 and if you haven't checked out PHP 5 and it OOP programming ,soap, and XML capabilities than you are really missing the good stuff. Here is some moe info about why to choose PHP

Corporate users include Lufthansa which serves out 6 million pages per day using PHP. Others include Electronic arts, Disney, Deutsche Bank, lucent technologies, Walstreet online, sprint, vivendi, lycos, MIT web mail and more.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/22/05 03:38 - ID#31761

Color Spy

I created a colorspy program

. I was thinking about what (e:ajay) had to say [inlink]ajay,304[/inlink] and decided to try and write something that could figure out information about images. I am planning on making something that sorts them by overall color and names them accordingly. This would be useful for artists looking to sort images for use in clipart such as matthews paper cut outs. It all depends on how much time I have, I could make it way cooler than that. Maybe this will be useful for jesse?

Right now it can handle jpegs, pngs, and gifs. You simply type the entire url of the image into the form and hit the calculate button.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/21/05 08:09 - ID#31760

Rzoo's frog

(e:rzoo) , Back in December I made two flash journals that use your mic like that frog [inlink]rzoo,10[/inlink]. One is called babies [inlink]paul,2483[/inlink] and the other is called Blow [inlink]paul,2482[/inlink]

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/20/05 07:20 - ID#31759

More Seafood

NY has the best food in the world and it's not even all that expensive sometimes. Here is fresh seafood salad and grilled calamari skewers. The shewers were so good. He ate the at republic on Union Square.

(e:hodown) said they seated us in the back because I look like a mountain man and because of her plastic surgery.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/20/05 07:20 - ID#31758

Black shrouded death monument

I don't know what building this is called, but if you stand in the world trade pit you can see it directly. It is wrapped in black cloth. I thought it was a cristo thing. Turns out the building is heavily contaminated with abspestos, black mold and all other things deadly.

They can't implode it or explode it because it will release it all into the air, so they have decided to take it out piece by piece. I could never live here.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/20/05 02:04 - ID#31757

Sea Restaurant in Brooklyn

Sea (MAP TO: 114 NORTH 6TH ST)
114 North 6th St
Brooklyn, NY
718-384-8850

This is the most insanely good restaurant I have ever been to. I have never has squid like this or shrimp as big as lobsters. I feel like the country mouse in the city. People look at me like I'm from the mountains. I guess I kind of am.

I drank this crazy drink a pomagranite mojito. It good was really but cost $12. Lukily, (e:hodown) was buying it ;) Here is the recipe

1/4 cup pomegranate juice
fresh pomegranite seeds
2 ounces white rum
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar, or to taste, recipe follows
4 ounces club soda
Cracked ice
6 sprigs fresh mint

In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients except the mint and shake well. Mull the mint in the bottom of a cocktail glass. Strain the pomegranate mixture into the glass with the mulled mint, and serve.

Vanilla Sugar:
1 vanilla beans, split in 1/2 lengthwise and crosswise
4 cups granulated sugar

In a large container with an airtight closure, place 1/2 of the sugar. Add the bean quarters and cover with the remaining 2 cups of sugar. Close tightly. Place in a cool, dark place. Twice a day shake the container to distribute the vanilla essence. Continue the process for at least 1 week and up to 3 weeks. Replace the sugar as it is used.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/20/05 12:55 - ID#31756

Who would have though?

Standing at the place of the former world trade center, looking into the giant hole in the ground was as freaky as I imagined it. It is a regular train station now.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/19/05 11:42 - ID#31755

I'm here in the City

I arrived safely!! My phone died! We got lost a lot but thank god for cellphones.

(e:robin) is the biggest chain smoker I have ever, I managed to smoke only three cigarettes,which is a miracle considering I only recently quit smoking.