Google’s stock closed at $372.14 today (up $13.97 for the day), which I thankfully I own some shares. I wonder how much higher it’s going to go before they announce a stock split. Even as it is now, it seems like a 10:1 stock split would be “reasonable”. It’s not the first […]

Have you ever used your cell phone as a flashlight? It’s not terribly bright, but just bright enough you can see stuff if it’s pitch dark (for example moving around your house in the middle of the night without tripping over stuff).
It gives off a faint/eery glow that lets you see about 2 feet […]

Here’s a handy bit of PHP code that will take the email variable, lookup the mail server for the domain, log into the mail server and see if it will accept delivery for that address.<?php
$split = preg_split(’/^(.*)<(.*)>(.*)/’, $_REQUEST[’email’], -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$email = array_pop ($split);
$split = explode (”@”, $email);
$domain = $split[1];

getmxrr ($domain, $a, $b);
if ($a) {
foreach ($a […]

I also saw the first rough sketches of a 5 hole golf course for my house. It looks pretty damn cool if I do say so myself. It even has a pond in the middle (although I didn’t see a golf cart path).
The front of the house is going to […]

The fire department doesn’t like the fact that I want to put a pool house against the edge of the slope off the pad (even if it’s 100% non-combustable materials). Now we are going to see if maybe they will be happy if we extend the pad in that area 15′ out using a […]

I know that Alexa numbers really are pointless, but it’s still fun to watch when you get below 10,000 or so.
The 3 month average dropped below 400 for the first time (389 specifically), which means only 388 domains are more trafficked than digitalpoint.com. According to Alexa’s top 500 list, we just passed MTV.com […]

The best thing about Windows is Windows Media Center, and it’s not as good as it could be (it lacks the ability to record HDTV). Apple really needs to come out with the TV recording solution I think, and it could be huge if they were to beat Microsoft to market with a HDTV […]

Stare at the center of this image for a couple seconds and watch the pink dots turn green.
Stare at it a bit longer and the pink dots totally disappear and you are left with one rotating green dot.

I finally solved a CSS problem that has been driving me crazy on the theme I created for this blog. The fact that if you use a border on a block item (a DIV or H1 for example), the border will overlap a floating DIV. The text will wrap properly, but the border […]

Dude, the San Diego Chargers should be 7-0, but instead they are 3-4. The 4 losses have all come with them leading in the last 2 minutes. Today they got beaten by the Philadelphia Eagles with such last minute stupidity I want to cry.
Still have to give some props to the Eagles for […]

Okay, I ordered a 10Ghz quad processor PowerMac. It’s 3-4 weeks until the estimated ship date though, so it will be awhile. Hopefully by then the 30″ Apple Cinema HD Display that a certain company is “gifting” to me will be here around the same time (would suck to have that cool monitor […]

I just found out today that it’s the professional opinion of Brian Winn (of Winn and Sims law firm) that my Winn and Sims blog is not only “infringing on their intellectual property rights”, but is a flat out “illegal site”. Not only that, I’m somehow “spreading misinformation” about them. It all seems […]

Dude, I missed my friend Shawn’s 1,000,000,000 second birthday a few months ago.
Anyway, he turned 1,000,000,000 seconds old on March 11, 2005. Happy belated birthday, and sorry I missed it Shawnie!!! I hope you did something fun (that obviously I wasn’t invite to… dick).

Wouldn’t it be cool if aliens came down one day and told you that you were the heir to the universe, and gave you the keys to a dope spaceship? You never know… it could happen.

I read on CNN today that some US troops are being accused of “corpse abuse” because they burned some dead bodies. This is just a FYI to anyone that had to deal with my dead body someday…
Feel free to burn my body, mutilate it or whatever else you feel necessary. Hell, if you […]

It seems as of last night MSN is now requiring end users to pass a cookie (specifically MC1) with all search and RSS feed requests. The cookie has 2 parts (V and GUID). V is always 3 for now (probably stands for VERSION), the second part is GUID which looks like an MD5 […]

I had a 9:30 am meeting today with the homeowners association where I’m building my house for the first stage of a three stage process of getting your house approved to be built.
Of course, I’ve never been to something like that before, so I’m thinking it’s going to be 3 or 4 hours or something. […]

Well… I decided to write my own PHP script to rip out the old comments (from when this was a Blogger blog), parse them, format them and insert them into the database for WordPress.
The cool part is it all worked on the first try. That’s pretty amazing if you ask me (and that’s why […]

Okay, so Apple *did* announce quad processor PowerMacs today. The top-end being a 2.5Ghz x 4 G5 machine. I know what I’m getting myself for an early Christmas present (they aren’t shipping them until next month though).
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
UpdateThe video card that comes with it (PCI Express GeForce 6600) supports one dual […]

So I’m sitting here working, minding my own business, when I happened to hear the roar of a jet engine somewhere close. So make the huge trouble (hehe) of turning my head to look out my window, and two Stealth Fighters were cruising by (maybe 500 feet off the ground). Obviously they just […]

After seeing the “Jesus In The Sand” image from the Google satellites, it reminded me of a Nazi building a saw here in my hometown (San Diego).
I don’t know what is actually in it or anything, but it sure seems like a strange to design a building in the shape of a Nazi swastika (even […]

Alek has setup his halloween lights this year so you can view them with a webcam. Even more fun is that fact that you can control them in realtime too.
Personally, I like raising Frankenstein from the dead, only to kill him off. hehe

Who would have thought that Jesus was trapped in a sand dune in Peru, but apparently it’s true. This is undeniable evidence that Jesus is alive and well. I think someone should go visit him and see what’s up (maybe they could answer the real question here… Has Jesus Christ taken up Spanish?)
Truthfully, […]

Rumor has it that Apple is announcing dual processor PowerMac G5 towers with each CPU having two cores to give it four logical processors. If rumors are right, they should be announced on Wednesday (October 19th).
I have a 30″ Apple Cinema Display on the way, and it requires a dual link DVI video card […]

I don’t know how often it happens, but I can’t imagine it happens all the time that an NFL player rushes for a touchdown, catches a pass for a touchdown and also PASSES for a touchdown in a single game. But it happend today for the Chargers with LaDainian Tomlinson against the Raiders.
What would […]

Mologogo is a free GPS friend-tracking service that works on Nextel phones with Java and GPS. Over at the MAKE: Blog, Phil Torronne took Mologogo for a walk. It’s a really cool use of the Google Maps API. This one lets two (or more) people you use GPS enabled phone to show on […]

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure that if my cat had two tongues, it would kind of freak me out. I think maybe this cat got some lizard DNA in him or something.
Just looking that that picture almost makes me want to cry.
Thankfully, my cats are not a […]

Not that anyone would really notice, but I’ve switched this blog from Blogger to WordPress (finally). It’s been something I wanted to do for a long time, but I hated all the templates for WordPress. So I finally got off my butt and made my own.
Comments were lost… not that you guys had […]

This is my annual “Blog You Have To See To Believe” entry. I spend an entire year going through over a million blogs. Then I pick one blog per year that is just so unbelievable and cool, everyone has to see it for themselves.
Words cannot describe it, so just check it out.
You can […]

After rumors have been swirling the last few weeks about Apple releasing an iPod that can do video, it’s official now. They have a 30GB and 60GB iPod with a slightly larger screen that is capable of doing video (realtime decoding of MPEG4 and H.264 with 260,000 colors). Pricing doesn’t change ($299 and […]

For the last two months or so, I’ve been having a strange problem with my primary MySQL Server that required that the mysqld process (not the server itself) be restarted. The first image shows the CPU usage of the server, with the red arrows being the points I restarted the mysqld process (queries per […]

If you are buying an HDTV anytime soon, make sure it has at least one HDMI connector on it. It’s pretty much the new standard for connecting audio/video (and soon computers) together. It’s built upon the older DVI interface, but it adds digital content protection for the content owners (keep the studios happy) […]

How come there isn’t any good options for a high definition digital video recorder? TiVo doesn’t have one, Windows Media Center can’t do it, etc. The only one I’ve run across (that didn’t end up being some home brew Linux setup) is the one built into some of Mitsubishi’s high-end TVs.
Weird.

The San Diego Chargers played a game in Foxborough against the New England Patriots at home. For those that don’t know, the Patriots are the defending Super Bowl champions (have also won 3 of the last 4 Super Bowls). And have not lost at home in 21 straight game (their last loss at […]