Monthly Archives: June 2009

Wise Advice from a Signature

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 22, 2009
I was search­ing for a quick and easy way of renam­ing an array key with­out alter­ing the order of the array ele­ments, when I stum­bled upon this thread. While it didn’t help me accom­plish my goal, I did enjoy Mark Baker’s signature: I’d say his esti­mate is low, and that it is more like 95% of [...]
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Review: Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 19, 2009
Just fin­ished Three Weeks to Say Good­bye by C.J. Box. The book is nar­rated by a man that recently adopted a baby girl with his wife. Life is great until the adop­tion agency calls to tell him that the birth father wants the baby back. To make things worse, the birth father’s father is a fed­eral judge. While [...]
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Conduit Toolbars

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 18, 2009
Back in April of 2007, I signed up with Con­duit. They offer web­site pub­lish­ers to quickly and eas­ily cre­ate a com­pletely cus­tom browser tool­bar that works with both Inter­net Explorer and Fire­fox. To make it even bet­ter, they pay the pub­lisher when peo­ple use the toolbar! To get me started, they gave me a $100 bonus, [...]
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I Am Reading: Lots of stuff!

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 17, 2009
So you may have noticed that on the right of the site I list what I’m read­ing. Pre­vi­ously, I dis­played this info using the I Am Read­ing plu­gin for Word­press. It lets you put in a sin­gle ISBN, and it will mag­i­cally dis­play the cover and link it to Amazon. But who reads only one book [...]
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Review: Variable Star

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 15, 2009
Just fin­ished Vari­able Star by Robert A. Hein­lein and Spi­der Robin­son. It is a sci-fi book that was out­lined by Robert A. Hein­lein before he died, and then fleshed out by Spi­der Robin­son many years later. SPOILER WARNING! The premise is pretty good. A poor col­lege stu­dent finds out that his sup­pos­edly equally-poor col­lege stu­dent girl­friend is a [...]
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Review: The Brief History of the Dead

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 14, 2009
I recently fin­ished read­ing The Brief His­tory of the Dead by Kevin Brock­meier. The book’s premise is inter­est­ing: After death, every­one goes to “the City”, a sort of wait­ing room between earth-life and what­ever comes after death. The catch: Once every­one that remem­bers you dies, you leave the City and go to… I don’t know. The [...]
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Unserializer

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 11, 2009
Added a new tool to the site: Unse­ri­al­izer. Lately for my job I’ve been fre­quently need­ing to unse­ri­al­ize PHP data from a data­base to see what is inside. Some­times the data is base64 encoded, some­times it isn’t. So I wrote a lit­tle script that will base64 decode the data if needed, and then unse­ri­al­ize the data [...]
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AddThis Social Bookmarking

By Jacob Allred | Published: June 11, 2009
On March 11th, I signed up for and added AddThis to the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor. I later added it to ABA Num­ber Lookup and iPhone Mob Codes. So far, I’m pretty happy with it. I haven’t seen any ads (although I do have AdBlock), and they include an ana­lyt­ics pack­age that includes just enough info to [...]
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