Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like? Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started […]

Quick and Dirty Code to Dump MySQL table to Excel

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

I had a tough time finding a quick example of dumping a MySQL table to Excel using PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer so here is what I came up with. Very handy and I hope it helps somebody looking for the same thing. < ?php require_once 'Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer.php'; require_once 'DB.php'; require_once 'DB/Table.php'; // create a PEAR DB object $dsn […]

ipod Sucks

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

I knew I would hate my ipod before I bought it. I bought it anyway. Now it’s broken. Now I really hate my ipod. Reasons to hate ipod: Can’t delete songs without connecting to a computer Crappy ipodservice.exe and ituneshelper.exe that stays resident in memory at all times (come on, it’s a plug and play […]

Colored Bubbles

Monday, November 21st, 2005

How cool is this? This guy made colored bubbles. You’d think they would make more of a mess than sticky plain bubbles, but some new chemistry makes the color magically disappear.