The other day, I ran into a situation where I needed to do case sensitive queries in MySQL. With a little Googling, I discovered that the keyword “binary” makes that possible, like this:
select foo_field from foo_table where binary foo_key=”foo value”
So I tried it out and it worked, but when querying a table with over a [...]

A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided it was time to cut our internet bill by switching away from Charter to a local wireless internet service provider named Internet USA. I figured it was a good time to reconsider our cable TV package too — we’d discussed switching to DirecTV in the [...]

The long awaited night has come. My daughter is watching the new Dora the Explorer move, “Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom”. Here’s my outline for a better Dora movie.
Dora and Boots go to withdraw money from the ATM, only to find that their bank has failed. During the transition to FDIC control, the ATM is [...]

I’ve just posted a history of the development of CaRP Evolution, running from the creation of my first free PHP RSS parser up through the additions of CaRP Koi and Evolution, and the version 4 upgrade, with a very small hint at the future (it’s getting renamed, but the new name isn’t going to be [...]

For the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they’ve got a few really irritating problems. Here’s my latest gripe.
About a month ago, I deleted 11 follow-up messages from one of my autoresponder sequences — they weren’t converting, so I axed ‘em.
AWeber keeps track of the last follow-up message that was [...]

Back in March, the Washington Post referred to Rush Limbaugh as the new Minority Leader. After Limbaugh repeatedly expressed the hope that Obama would fail and Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele criticized him for it, Steele had to apologize to Limbaugh.
Are you kidding me?
Let me see if I’ve got this right. We’re supposed to try [...]

When Google Reader debuted, there was no question — it was as bad as all the other web-based feed readers. No way was I going to dump NetNewWire for it.
A few days ago, somebody (someone I follow on Twitter, I think — perhaps Michel Fortin?) commented about how they use Google Reader, so I gave [...]

I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise!

Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost exactly the same as this.

As recently as January, I was still getting enough visitors at 800×600 [...]

Here’s an image I whipped up for my link exchange website just after I introduce the problem of what I call “caveman links pages”:

The caption reads, “When you’re courting the search engines, you have to be sensitive to their needs.” (My wife got a chuckle out of that).
How does the song go?
“I was lookin’ for [...]

Last month, I called Kodak out for trying to grab the moral high ground in printer ink pricing.
An HP employee helped sink the dagger deeper by commenting on that post. Well, now it’s HP’s turn to get called out.
HP’s ad shows 2 peacock’s — the “cheap replacement ink” peacock with a small tail, and the [...]