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Monthly Archives: June 2006
eBay Suspension — The saga continues!
As you may or may not know, my eBay account was suspended over 1 1/2 months ago for the vague reason of being “associated with a previously suspended user”. I was given that users name, and that is it. This user hadn’t used his account in 5 years, and so I thought it was strange that somehow [...]
Posted in Rants 103 Comments
Weighted Randomness using PHP and MySQL
So when making my Fake Name Generator, I ran into the problem of how to select a random record, but still have it weighted so some records show up more often than others.
Posted in Random 3 Comments
What the German spam?
Just got this weird message in German:
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Im Internet habe ich Ihre Adresse gefunden. Mit diesem Brief möchte ich Sie fragen, ob Sie mich beschäftigen könnten.
Ich bin Pole, 25 Jahre alt. Deutsch beherrsche ich im Wort und Schrift. Ich habe Germanistik studiert.
Arbeit bei Ihnen würde für mich eine große Chance für weiteres [...]
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The world we live in and life in general
Haven’t posted anything about life in a while, so thought I’d put a few things up.
(EDIT) Had a rant here about some jerk who was trolling, but I decided not to let it bother me and just deleted his comments. Problem solved. :o) (END EDIT)
But the fake name generator is going well. We’re up to over [...]
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15 Minutes of Fame
So somebody apparantly put my fake name generator on Digg. It is actually doing quite well (suprisingly). Over 500 diggs in under 5 hours. Over 30,000 generated names. I’ll have to add in the code to show how many unique IP’s. Fortunately I hadn’t gotten around to making the page pretty yet so no major [...]
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Do you use IE? I bet I can tell you what in on your clipboard!
From Digg:
With a simple line of code you can display (at a minimum) what is on a person’s clipboard that uses IE with standard security set. I have also included directions on how to turn it off.
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False Identity Generator
UPDATE: Here are the latest updates (Including Canadian and Australian addresses!)
My fake name generator is somewhat up and running. Very very rough draft. But it works!
Posted in My Sites, Web Dev 77 Comments
Crappy hosting company
So my hosting company, HostGator, sucks. Seriously. Here is what happened.
Posted in Rants 2 Comments
New Features for the Fake Name Generator!