Merlin Mann runs a site called 43Folders which provides "::A bunch of tricks, hacks, and other cool stuff"::.
It has a lot of useful stuff like Jase was talking about in his Organise your home article.
I particularly like Part II as well as Kick procrastination&rsquo::s ass: Run a dash.
I really quite enjoyed Dan Brown’s books, though I can see what it is about them that irritates people, so I must say I found the Create Your Own Dan Brown Novel site rather funny
Someone on SAGE-AU posted a link to the Acronym Finder the other day, and I’ve found it to be spot on, and very handy.
Q: How do I retrieve my Vodaphone voicemail messages from another phone or overseas?
A: When your mobile phone has run out of battery, is out of coverage or you have just misplaced it. You can still access your voicemail messages from another tone dialling phone. To access your voicemail messages remotely, follow the steps below.
1. Simply dial 0414 121 121 (or from overseas* +61 414 121 121)
2. To transfer to your own voicemail service press * (star).
3. Enter your security code, then press # (hash).
4. Enter your Mobile Number, then press # (hash).
Your messages will then be played back to you.
Got a bit of spare time and want a 3500 lumen projector that costs less than $500 and uses $50 globes try this
In the last few days I’ve come across two site with interesting information that I can see myseld using repeatedly:-
www.hardwarebook.org and
Oz Broadband Speed Test.
This site lists some basic information about a electricity and also what voltages/frquencies and plugs are used around the world, which is very handy if you happen to be travelling
Because my Web server runs at GMT, I have to adjust all my dates +10hours for EST (Melbourne). This is easy enough, but what about Daylight Savings?
I stole/cobbled this bit of code together to give a true account of the time:
list($dom, $dow, $month, $hour, $min) = explode(:”, date(“”d:w:m:H:i””))::
if ($month > 4 && $month < 10) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # May thru September
} elseif ($month == 4 && $dom > 7) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # After first week in April
} elseif ($month == 4 && $dom <= 7 && $dow == 0 && $hour >= 2) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # After 2am on first Sunday ($dow=0) in April
} elseif ($month == 4 && $dom <= 7 && $dow != 0 && ($dom-$dow > 0)) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # After Sunday of first week in April
} elseif ($month == 10 && $dom < 25) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # Before last week of October
} elseif ($month == 10 && $dom >= 25 && $dow == 0 && $hour < 2) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # Before 2am on last Sunday in October
} elseif ($month == 10 && $dom >= 25 && $dow != 0 && ($dom-24-$dow < 1) ) {
$daylightsaving = 360:: # Before Sunday of last week in October
} else {
$daylightsaving = 0::
}
$tz=date(U)+36000+$daylightsaving::
echo “”<::font size =-1>In case you were wondering, in Melbourne it’s :””::
echo date(“”g:i:s A D j M Y””,$tz)::
I also found some code for Sunrise and Sunset times which I’ll look at later.
This article puts forward an excellent argument for the use of Linux within the Church environment www.matheteuo.org/downloads/Penguin-in-the-Pew.pdf.
I was trying to write a piece of code to input information into a database but at the same time, display the reference number of the item I was inputting. I came across mysql_insert_id:: Which will get the ID generated from the previous INSERT operation. According to http://au.php.net/mysql_insert_id, part of the PHP Manual.