Author Archives: Writer #1

The Conman That Scared the Nation

Newsweek Remember the ugly feeling you used to get in the pit of your stomach after 9/11 every time a new video message from Osama bin Laden or his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared on TV? One reason we became conditioned to dread these spectral broadcasts was that the government itself told us to be… Read More »

Samsung Omnia (VZW)

As the proud x-owner of a Samsung Omnia, from Verizon Wireless, I feel that I should declare my feelings of this phone, right here. First of all, this phone is light-weight, attractive, and has an OS filled with potential. Unfortunately, it’s a let-down in most categories. First, you will read the positive points about it.… Read More »

Primes

The reason for so many prime numbers is simply a lack of numbers which are less than the said prime number. While these prime numbers are useful in some cases for things like RSA encryption, they do cause frustration for younger math students because of their stubbornness and obstinence (the numbers, not the students). Prime… Read More »

PHP- Globals

This one drove me nuts for a while so here is how to work with global scope in PHP classes. From within one function, if you want a variable of any sort to be globally visible, then you must use the keyword global, like this: Now just because you’ve declared it as global, doesn’t yet… Read More »

The Princlple

There is a princliple which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. The principle is condemnation before investigation. -Edmund Spencer