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This is a bit of a LazyWeb request here, or rather an "I'm busy doing other things and don't yet have the two hours necessary to find the answers, but maybe someone knows offhand" type of post. Anyway, the question is this: are there any forum packages that "expose" their member list for extensibility and […]

I am, in no particular order, a geek, a Mac user, a husband, a (step)father, a golfer, a pool player, a TV viewer (with a few favorite shows), and a photographer (kinda). I play pool, I work for myself and do a variety of tasks, and I live in Erie, PA but have lived elsewhere, […]

It's simple: for the month of March, allow iTunes songs to be sold without DRM. See whether your sales increase or decrease. People buying songs from iTunes are buying it despite the DRM (i.e. they're honest people, or they're too lazy to look for pirated music - either way, they're paying). The people who are […]

Saying "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally": dumb. Daring hackers to attempt to do bad things to your OS: even dumber. What, I've linked to the same small page? Yeah - because Gates said and […]

It's nice to see WebKit add support for the box shadow property in CSS3. I look forward to the day when we can sit back and talk about the good ol' days when we had to build three separate images and stitch them together with clever CSS and HTML just to get a darn shadow. […]

Now that OpenDNS has fixed the "caching" issue, I'm down to one reason not to use them: the removal of the "auto-.com" feature wherein I type "apple" in the location bar of my browser and it dutifully tries first the local network before quickly switching to "apple.com." ((Technically "www.apple.com" of course.)) This feature even works […]

Thanks to someone who will remain nameless (simply so he's not inundated with other annoying questions like my own), I found/replaced 1292 links in The Sand Trap's move to WordPress (and its new URL linking scheme). In BBEdit, search for: ("http://thesandtrap[.]com/.+?)([.]php") and replace with: \1/". If you're using Perl or PHP, the replacement is $1. […]

MediaTemple has released their (dv)3 package. Within the next week or so, the Plesk migration manager will enable customers to move their domains, but until then, this document informs you that: Early adopters comfortable moving site files and databases between servers can immediately open a support request to have a new (dv) 3.0 service added […]

The MediaTemple (dv) upgrade (dubbed "(dv)3") has apparently slipped a few days to December 21. Still, I'm very much looking forward to the upgrade, as I've patiently waited for about two months now to move The Sand Trap over.

I'm attempting to help a friend with an Apache/PHP issue. In her shared server's local account, she has the PECL HTTP "http.so" shared library. She'd like to load the module for use in a PHP page or two. She has no access to httpd.conf or other configuration files and the .so is located at an […]

I'm looking for some forum software suggestions. Something between vBulletin (costs money) and bbPress (way too bare-bones). phpBB is a little too heavy, but seems to be the best out there. I installed the 3.0B2 version as a test. I'm not going to list all the features I'd like, but it seems to me that […]

You know, I have a strong feeling that these Zune ads are going to completely miss their audience. They're horrible. What does "find your audience" have to do with a device that plays music? Do modern teens really get into pit-bull fighting? How is the music appealing to anyone that isn't into bad emo ((Admittedly […]

For the most part, I've moved to MediaTemple. This domain (nslog.com) will actually be the last one to move on this site (though the database is currently being hosted on the new server as a trial). barzeski.com moved yesterday. Currently, I'm waiting for the DNS changes to take place for a few sites, like billiardsdrills.com […]

This has come in handy the past few days. If only I could do it with regular expressions… and if only I knew regular expressions! 🙂 update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name], '[string_to_find]', '[string_to_replace]'); Works like a charm… though I'm not entirely sure how to replace line breaks. Some of my MT entries have four […]

I typically shy away from bashing unreleased stuff, particularly from Microsoft, because if I've learned one thing, it's that Microsoft has enough money to overcome any problem. If I've learned two things, the second is that people don't always exhibit great taste. The prevalence of Windows in the 90s is proof enough of that. So, […]