The 2008 Olympics In Bullet Points

August 18th, 2008

I don’t really have much to say about the Olympics as a whole but I do have some random thoughts about what I’ve seen so I’ve organized them as bullet points below. These are just my opinions and are worth whatever you think they are. Any sport that relies on the sole judgment of judges [...]

Tags: ,

Tutorial: Integrating the Authorize.Net AIM API with PHP

August 11th, 2008

Working with the Authorize.Net AIM API in and of itself is very easy to do. Between the integration guide and sample code a good programmer can have a working solution in only minutes. But this code is for demonstration purposes only and isn’t suited for live production sites. A reusable concise solution is needed. Fortunately [...]

Tags: ,

I’m In Urban Dictionary

August 7th, 2008

For those of you who don’t use much slang or don’t really care where it came from, there is website called Urban Dictionary that offers up user submitted definitions for various slang and derogatory terms. While checking the rankings of my personal website in Google I noticed that the seventh position for thew term “stymiee” [...]

Tags: , , , ,

Being A Good Samaritan

August 4th, 2008

So I was driving home from a BBQ around 1:30AM last Saturday night and as I rounded the bend in the road I noticed someone pushing their truck to the side of the road. It was a small pickup, a Mazda B2200 I think, but still a truck which is heavier then a passenger vehicle [...]

Tags: