I think I’ll be printing this out for my office. Could come in handy on occasion.
The MySQL cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about MySQL. It includes a list of the available functions in MySQL, as well as data types. It also includes a list of MySQL functions available in PHP, and a list of useful sample queries to select data from a database.
Tony G is my coworker. He’s got an unspellable last name. He’s also a very good and humourous writer. But no one knows this yet. Check out his blog. Do it. Jerks.
I don’t remember much from the fall, and even less afterward, but here is what I’ve been able to put together:
When I fell, I reached out for something – anything – to brace against, but our shower doesn’t have any soap dishes or towel racks. I grabbed the shower curtain and pulled down with me. As my head ricocheted off the tiles I hit my knee against the lip of the shower, I rotated out onto the floor where I laid, wrapped in a moldy shower curtain, staring at the hallucinated stars on the ceiling.
If you are a current AdSense publisher and your feed has more than 100 active subscribers, you may qualify for participation in AdSense for feeds (BETA).
You can now apply to take part in the Google Adsense-for-feeds program if your site matches their criteria (mine doesn’t). The ads-in-rss debate should be heating up real soon now.
At least they’ve outlined some pretty decent ‘best practices‘.
As with many promising technologies feeds haven’t quite hit the mainstream yet, nor are the business models entirely sorted out. Enter AdSense for feeds, launching today in beta. The idea is simple: advertisers have their ads placed in the most appropriate feed articles; publishers are paid for their original content; readers see relevant advertising – and in the long run, more quality feeds to choose from. Given the great flexibility that feeds can offer, it’s essential to get the modelright, especially so that readers are satisfied. Towards this end we have outlined what we believe are some best practices
NASA’s subvocal speech system: “
A bunch of scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California are working on a way for people to talk without
making a sound or opening their mouths (we know you’re secretly going to miss all those people chattering away on their
cellies during movies and meals). Basically it’s a new subvocal speech system that uses sensors attached to the neck
that measure nerve signals used to control your vocal chords and other muscles used for speech. The sensors pick up the
activity of neurons which fire whether or not you’re actually verbalizing something, so essentially you can just think
what you want to say and the system will translate that into words. It’s all in the early prototype stages—so far the
system can only recognize about twenty words, and is just now being taught how to suss out vowels and consonants—but
they’re already figuring out how to get the technology onto cellphones and into firefighter gear and have successfully
tested with a person who lost the use of their larynx. So how long until someone builds a shotgun sensor that can read
your thoughts from 50 feet away?
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CBC.ca is reporting that MTV Canada and the canadian MTV2 will cease broadcasting on June 30th:
The change comes as part of a deal announced Tuesday by CHUM, which counts MuchMusic among its holdings.
CHUM purchased Craig Media late last year, acquiring the two MTV channels in the process.
MTV has now exercised an option it had to sever ties with the CHUM-owned Craig.
All of this is a little less surprising when you remember that CHUM owns and operates MuchMusic (”The Nation [Canada]’s Music Station“) and pads out MuchMusic content with purchased content from MTV, like Newlyweds and Pimp My Ride.
Frankly I didn’t even know that CHUM had purchased MTV Canada and I don’t think I’ve seen the channel since my “60-days of free digital cable channels” promotion ended, which might be an indication in-and-of-itself as to why it’s being shutdown.
I just noticed the new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire trailer is now up at Apple’s Movie Trailers page. It’s not due to be released into theatres until Nov. 28th, this year, but I have to say that the trailer certainly got me excited for it.
One of the aspects of the Harry Potter series that I’ve particularly enjoyed so far has been the way they’ve attempted to handle the aging of both the actors and the themes of the novels. It’s certainly not a guarded secret that as the books have progressed the darker they’ve become, and novel-wise Goblet of Fire is no exception. Right beginning of the trailer this theme is introduced as we see images of Harry from each of the three previous films dissolve into one another, ending, finally, in a now fairly mature (and sorta creepy) looking shot of Daniel Radcliffe from the new film. We also see the same process applied to both Hermione and Ron in turn. From just the changes in colour palates from film-to-film alone we see that the relatively light feeling of the first film is long gone as we approach the fourth film in the series.
From the nice dissovles bringing us back up to date we transition (quite nicely encouraged along by the soundtrack in the trailer) to a quick series of shots from the film. Many of these shots work well for both the casual viewer as well as the hard-boiled Potter-nerd (myself included) in that they seem to be pulled from some of the more exciting parts of the book. We are also given a snippet of what appears to be a speech by Dumbledore (played once again by Michael Gambon, who seems like he finally might cast of the shadow left behind by the late Richard Harris) as a means of narration and quite succinctly surmising the main action plot.
Spoilerwise, this trailer isn’t actually that bad. While it does show scenes from each of the challenges in the story, it doesn’t actually give much of the meat of the story away. It’s found a nice balance between building anticipation and showing enough ‘wow-shots’ to possibly pull in new audience members who may have previously dismissed the previous films as kid’s stuff. Overall the story, as presented in the trailer, certainly feels more epic than I recall feeling about the other films. One thing to note is the total absence of any comedy from the trailer.
We’re left with a somewhat ominous detached voice advising Harry that he’ll need to make a choice. I can’t recall from memory who or what this pertains to but I think it’s a great hook to leave the audience with.
I’m sure the people over at mugglenet have dissected this trailer to death by now, they’re pretty much the premier site for Potter related news on the net.
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