"Teaching PHP" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: work

02/05/08 12:36 - 40ºF - ID#43186

Teaching PHP

I had a crazy day today. I didn't program much because I spent the day preparing lessons and teaching PHP at work. I kind of miss teaching a bit. Too bad there is no where I would like to teach in Buffalo and that it pays so poorly in comparison to programming.

When I got home I was exhausted for some reason. I hope I am not sick.

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Category: buffalo

02/03/08 08:37 - 32ºF - ID#43164

A day on the run with Mike

I didn't go skiing with (e:terry) and (e:matthew) today so that I could reset up the old server and go shopping for my mother's birthday with (e:mike). Inside the old server I found a 250GB drive I installed but never mounted. That was really freakin convenient for backing up some important info before removing centos 4.5 and installing centos 5.

We went over to the galleria to get my mother's gift. The nail studio near Macy's was exuding a cloud of toxic gas so bad that the whole wing of the mall is like one poison gas cloud. Seriously, I was not being overly sensitive, just ask (e:mike). It was unbelievably strong, we had to use another door to exit.

Random pics:
Can this be real? This coffee $50 coffee machine

uses 1100 watts of electricity?

This is just way to many police for whatever the situation was with that Aldi's shopper. If he didn't have a gun then really do they ever need more than two? There were like 4 or 5 police cars on main street.

The smoke stack at UB south campus reminds me of the imagery in the movie metropolis

Does anyone remember this bar on Main Street. I think it was called Molly's or something. Did they finally get shut down for underage drinking?

These two houses on Main St near the Trimain building aways remind me of houses overlooking a river. I think it is really overlooking the railroad tracks.

I ate some more octopus at Kostas on Hertel. It is the only place in Buffalo i can find it this way. I love eating octopus. They got rid of their fresh Calamari appetizer on the menu and only have the fried kind now, lame.

Dork Chic is apparently back in this year. I will fit in well during the summer.

Damn, the apple store was so crowded. It seems like everyone and their mother are converting to Mac.

I kind of want an RV like this one but I know I have like 30 more years before that is practical.

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Category: computers

02/03/08 12:34 - 30ºF - ID#43153

6 inches shorter than e:jim's

I also got a big monitor for programming like (e:jim,43029) but mine is not quite as big.

I only got a 24" model, however, this one that rotates so I can turn it up on its side allowing me to view lots of lines of code. I think this will speed up some programming tasks I have had recently. Now I just need a bigger monitor at work.

(e:matthew) and (e:terry) got something too. There go the tax refunds.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

02/02/08 01:44 - 32ºF - ID#43144

No more dropping down problem bother you

Free gifts from China.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: cars

02/01/08 11:25 - 31ºF - ID#43131

Going off the highway

I almost died on the way to the doctors when my car spun around a couple times on the 90 and then flew down and embankment. Miraculously, everything was froozen solid so the car and myself were not damaged. Normally, the creek I rolled onto would have been mush but it was solid as pavement and I was able to drive off.

Seriously, it was a freakin miracle. Its so scary when you are spinning around out of control on the highway and mac trucks are coming at you.

I was trying to drive to the doctors on transit. I made it but really this is why I want a doctor in the city.

On a side note, I discovered my notphone can browse all the files on my real phone as though it is anotherf drive. How cool is that. I don't even have to trasnfer stuff via bluebooth message.

jenks writes at 01:55:07 02/02/08 - Comment #31201: wow. I just wrote a post about how scary the roads were today. i saw so many cars spun out- I can't believe you were one of them!
So glad you were ok.
What a nasty day for driving.

theecarey writes at 12:23:40 02/02/08 - Comment #31199: what no pictures or video while mid-spin?!? I expected more from this post, paul! Kidding aside, that must have been so freakin scary. Thats super awesome that you were able to drive away, unharmed, undamaged.

fellyconnelly writes at 11:20:10 02/01/08 - Comment #31198: WOW~! i'm so glad you are okay!

jason writes at 01:36:05 02/01/08 - Comment #31174: Thank goodness you made it. Driving to work on the 190 today was really fugged also.

museumchick writes at 01:14:20 02/01/08 - Comment #31169: That's so scary. I'm really glad you are allright.

leetee writes at 12:30:17 02/01/08 - Comment #31164: Yipes! Glad you're ok.

mrdeadlier writes at 12:21:16 02/01/08 - Comment #31163: Tony, drop the "Y" in that last comment and it's even more true.

enknot writes at 12:15:50 02/01/08 - Comment #31161: Good thing your alive. Y Roswell would die in the water without you... He he he.

Hey what Dr. are you at? You should me and the Meggiebyte at the Buffet for lunch. Yeah!

paul writes at 12:01:52 02/01/08 - Comment #31160: Ya for once Was not playing with the phone. Driving was too scary. So I am stil waiting for the doctor and I have to be at that disney meeting at 1PM, argh.

jim writes at 11:50:28 02/01/08 - Comment #31158: Glad you're OK. Sorry I suspected you of doing it because you were playing with your phone :)

mrmike writes at 11:32:54 02/01/08 - Comment #31157: Thank gosh for small frozen favors. Glad you made it one piece.

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Category: web

02/01/08 09:06 - 30ºF - ID#43125

Microsoft will take over yahoo?!

"We discussed a number of alternatives ranging from commercial partnerships to a merger proposal, which you rejected," Microsoft told Yahoo in a letter.

"While a commercial partnership may have made sense at one time, Microsoft believes that the only alternative now is the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo that we are proposing," it said.

I knew this was going to happen. Semmel is leaving

and (e:ajay) is going to end up working for microsoft!

jim writes at 04:02:55 02/01/08 - Comment #31180: One benefit for us, as programmers, is that Microsoft would finally employ people who get the web. I'm hoping the thousands of web designers and developers that would become Microsoft employees would kick the ass of the IE team.

MS cares more about intranets then the internet and maybe that'll change. Then again the music and product divisions of Sony have been at each others throats for years, so maybe the web people at Yahoocrosoft would just end up similarly locked down.

jim writes at 02:11:38 02/01/08 - Comment #31176: It's hard to see what this will bring either party. If Yahoo hasn't been able to realize success (in terms of market perception - no denying they are successful in many ways) through their vision of the web, they're not going to do any better being dragged down by Microsoft's need to protect its cash cows - Windows and Office.

I see a chimera forming that is going to take years to straighten out and make fit well. This is Microsoft's one chance to buy their way back into paid search, and it seems like a pretty risky thing. All the press release talks about is synergy. And we know how well that goes... AOL/Time Warner.

Microsoft's new MSN Live Yahoo Personalized Home Page Search! (TM)

It's going to be a weird day when yahoo.com redirects to live.com.

drew writes at 11:23:47 02/01/08 - Comment #31156: If this goes through I will finish my cup of google kool-aid (I've already started drinking it) and switch my yahoo mail/calendar account to gmail. Microsoft has frustrated me too much.

mrdeadlier writes at 11:19:56 02/01/08 - Comment #31154: Someday we'll drive our Microsoft to the Microsoft to get more Microsoft.

ajay writes at 10:36:41 02/01/08 - Comment #31148: Too early to call...

HotMail was bought for $400M ; this is 110x bigger than that. There is no way that Microsoft will insist on converting our hundreds of thousands of servers to Windows; they might as well just put that $44B in a pile and light it.

(e:paul) , Semel wasn't doing anything anyways, so his departure doesn't mean much.

Interesting times ahead... :-)

jim writes at 09:49:01 02/01/08 - Comment #31142: Great. Microsoft is going to own Flickr now.

What I don't get is how the technology will be merged. It took MS like 3 or 4 years to migrate Hotmail off Unix to MS servers. How many decades is it going to take to transition Yahoo from PHP to .NET/C#? Yuck. Microsoft will end up choking on that one.

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Category: food

01/31/08 01:26 - 22ºF - ID#43109

Zhangs's Buffet

I wentto Zhang's buffet on union with some of my coworkers tdoay. We saw an estrip bumper sticker in the parking lot and it turned out to be (e:umcutsaniflush) and (e:leetee) who are going onh a cruise. I am so jealous. I want to be in the sun.

This time I only ate the seafood and rice plus a chicken wing and it was much better. It would be hard to mess up mussels.

I still think their sushi is not good.

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Category: games

01/31/08 08:33 - 15ºF - ID#43107

OMFG Secondlife what happend

So yesterday (e:jim) emails me to say the SL economy has crashed

.

Then, I woke up this morning to find that someone had returned all my property form Slate. My hometown in Secondlife. I was so mad that it was gone and then I thought, wait - thats my land how did they banish my stuff from it?

Then I logged in and saw - someone seriously paid 200,000L/$700 US dollars for my remaining tiny plot of land. I can't believe it. It has had the price tag of $700 for months, maybe even a year and everyone always tried to bargain down. I refused to budge on the price thinking I would rather own the land then sell it for cheaper. Then this morning I wake up and bam. I get an email saying my shit has been returned to me by the owner of the land.

I know the secondlife economy crashed yesterday. But its still worth $700 US. This means I have made almost $2000 off this game I never even play. Should I cash out or re-invest in the long term. I think I might just cash out. I figure if I ever want back in I could just buy some land.

You have sold L$209530 for a total of US$732.59 using LindeX. Your Second Life account will be credited the net proceeds.

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Category: food

01/30/08 11:13 - 21ºF - ID#43105

Sushi at Kuni's To Go

:enknot and I went to lunch at Kunis

again today. I freakin love their food. It is so tasty.

I got tuna and yellow tail rolls

I really like their wakame salad.

This squid was really yummy and really cool looking.

The marekerel was exactly the type I like. I would suggest theirs definately.

Everything was perfect as always. They really just have the best Sushi in town. It is, however, a most expensive lunch if you are not getting the Bento box. I seriously think my lunch came to $19.00. Seeing as I barely eat out anymore - I am going to jusify that.

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Category: kenmore

01/30/08 11:11 - 21ºF - ID#43104

At the denist in Kenmore

Totally unrelated. Yeserday, I was in Kenmore for the dentist and I tooka couple pics of the trip. Yes, officially pet lover's paradise is closed. It looks like it was closed for a long time and i just never noticed. Does anyone else remember the monkey from in there that everyone said hey gave lsd too? Was that an urban legend or can someone substantiate that store.