Force Flex – A staple of moving

Recently (as in yesterday) I moved to a new house. This activity, in my humble opinion, is ranked right up there with digging a ditch. If someone asked me if I want to help them move or dig a ditch, it might be a toss-up. On the bright side it feels good, physically, to work… Read More »

The New Melanin Agenda

People have a green agenda. It makes no sense to any thinking human being. Follow me here… We must “save trees”. Don\’t print emails, go paperless, and so on. Then we have to stop exhaling because carbon dioxide destroys the planet. But carbon dioxide feeds trees which in turn generate oxygen for us to breath.… Read More »

Google Voice Quality

Google voice is still my second choice. When I used it a few days ago to call my wife for a second, she kept saying “huh?”, “what?”, “I can’t hear you”. After saying it three times, she got it. Then she told me that I sounded terrible. There may not really be an advantage to… Read More »

Google Voice Now Open to Everyone in the US

Source: PC World Google’s telephony management application Google Voice is now open to all U.S. residents, as the company on Tuesday removed the requirement for prospective users to receive an invitation in order to sign up for the service. Google Voice Now Open to Everyone in the US Already, there are 1 million people with… Read More »

Driving in Cincinnati

Welcome to Cincinnati, where drivers literally move in front of you while you are on a clear path. They have no reason to move other than they like the appearance of the lane you are in. I have honked at people before to have them move out of the way. After they realize that they… Read More »

PHP explode and trim the results?

php.net – where I posted this Overview This is something that I used to use on this site before I went to WordPress. If you checked “view source” and looked at the meta keywords, you would notice a comma separated string. When programming, you may want to take a comma separated string and grab the… Read More »

JavaScript stripslashes

Sometimes you have to add slashes to javascript text. PHP has it built in, javascript does not. Here is the code to put into your javascript to get the same functionality: function addslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\/g,’\\\\\\\\’);      str=str.replace(/\\’/g,’\\\\\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\”/g,’\\\\”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\0/g,’\\\\0’);      return str; } function stripslashes(str) {      str=str.replace(/\\\\’/g,’\\”);      str=str.replace(/\\\\”/g,'”‘);      str=str.replace(/\\\\0/g,’\\0’);… Read More »