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Go Watch

Posted on: Monday, July 28th, 2008 in: Movies

1) Batman2) Wall-E Best Pixar movie ever made, and that’s saying a lot.
and to rent:
3) Southland Tales. How come nobody told me how awesome this movie is? Is it just that no one has seen it? I honestly had never heard about it until last week. Great cast, interesting story, superb [...]

FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME NO

Posted on: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 in: Coding

Developers:
$query = “SELECT id FROM table1″;
$results = mysql_query($query);
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$query2 = “SELECT * FROM table2 WHERE id={$row['id']}”;
$result2 = mysql_query($query1);  // $result 2 = HEAD ASPLODE
}
If query the database, then loop through the results, and query the database based on those results, you need to go back to SQL Class 101 before you give me [...]

Believe The Hype

Posted on: Monday, July 21st, 2008 in: Movies

Went to see Batman over the weekend. Saw the early morning show, got there 35 minutes early and still ended up sitting in the 3rd row because the theatre was packed. It was all well worth the effort.

Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon

Posted on: Friday, July 18th, 2008 in: Music

Last.fm updated their site last night, I really like the changes.  The lists are all Ajax now, and much easier to pull up.  No need to wait for them to compile weekly stats, it’s all done on the fly, as it should be.
I should be hitting 40k tracks played sometime next week.
But my #1 played [...]

I’ve Gone Happy

Posted on: Thursday, July 17th, 2008 in: Personal

I updated my theme to be more “happyish.”  Still lots of blue, just a happy blue.