The Slow Lane

This was too funny not to repost. Apparently yesterday everyone was supposed to turn off the lights for one hour as a sign of solidarity for climate change. Anthony Watts reports that out in California Earth Hour did not make a dent in the electrical demand load reported by CA-ISO, California’s eletrical system regulator. In [...]

Well all my complaining in my last post may be taken to be null and void considering what I’m about to say next. But I stand by my position. The first time homebuyer tax credit is/was creating artificial spikes in home prices. All you have to do is look at how home sales and home [...]

You must be thinking “is this guy crazy?” An insentive for buying a house, who doesn’t want that? Well I don’t. And up until a week ago I was trying to take advantage of the current first time homebuyer tax credit. Key word there is trying. You see my wife and I have discovered there [...]

As you saw in my past post I am working on filtering user input into my PHP application. I don’t want to get to much into the boring details because I started to write the post explaining all the little details and I could see it getting very long and drawn out and unfocused. But [...]

I wonder why none of the major PHP frameworks have validators for UTF-8 encoding? You may be asking why do I need to validate incoming text as UTF-8? UTF-8 is the preferred character encoding for the web, if you want to display languages other than the Latin derived ones. All of the browsers support it. [...]

I’ve had an idea. I’ve been having lots of ideas lately but this one has been in my head for a while. There are lots of Content Management Systems or CMS’ out there, software that you use to build and maintain a website. They come in all shapes, sizes, and complexities. I have observed there [...]

This isn’t another “I just tried out Linux and it’s…” blog post. I’ve played with Linux off and on since 1998. Back then I ran a webserver off a “lunchbox” Sun SPARCstation I bought at a computer fair for $40. Over the last 10+ years has gone from “can’t get the sound working, I give [...]

September. Damn that seems like a long time ago, because well it was. And a lot has happened since then. For one I’m married now. There is not much to blog about atucrossing over the winter b/c there really isn’t much autocrossing over the winter. Philly region does have a winter series but I didn’t [...]

Not much has been happening on the autocross front for me lately with the wedding only days away now. I missed Philly Event #8 at Warminster because Irene and I had too much on our todo list for that weekend. Doug borrowed the car and won STS2 with it again. His time was impressively close [...]

In my last post I mentioned I was updating some software. At work we use Autodesk Inventor 2008 for our 3D design & modeling. I was applying Service Packs 1 & 2 to that and the AutoCAD that comes bundled with Inventor. I am the CAD manager for my small little group and had disributed [...]