Monthly Archives: June 2009

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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