At times, the hand tool in Photoshop will not go away and can’t pick a different tool.  Shutting down photoshop and restarting does not help.

Under the Windows menu, deselect all of the windows…and viola!  Problem goes away.

Nice way to dump out the names and values of the variables coming from a posted form:

foreach ( $_POST as $key => $value ) {
 echo $key . ” ” . “=” . ” ” . $value;
 echo  ”<BR>”;
}

Get the parts of the current date into workable variables….

        $cday = date(’d',time());
        $cmonth = date(’m',time());
        $cyear = date(’Y',time());

A small way to at least keep your pages looking current…and keep your copyright protection going…

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>
<!–  today=new Date();
    y0=today.getFullYear();
    document.write(y0);
  // end hiding —>
</SCRIPT>   

Just stick this after a start year, and you are off to the races!

One way of detecting of a select statement returned any results.  Using this currently…

  $result = mysql_query(”SELECT * FROM some_table where some_field = ’some_value’ “, $connection);

  if (!$result) 
    $count=0;
  else
    $count =mysql_num_rows($result);

  if ($count == 0) {
   die(”Database query failed: ” . mysql_error());

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I remember back in the mid 90’s when the first person dared to advertise services on newsgroups.  You would have thought the world was coming to an end from the posts that followed.  As all of know, that person probably just opened up pandora’s box that was going to happen anyways.  This first coming of spam was not as persistent, or done with evil means as we see today.

Until some additional control is placed on internet access, this medium will continue to be the unlawful wild west.  It’s not easy to see past the services and convenience that internet provides all of us…behind all this goodness there also lurks a real organized crime…almost mafia like in a very techy way.

For example, there was a small Israeli company called Blue Security that had a very well thought out program for helping poor smucks such as ourselves from being blasted by spam that we did not want, or benefit.  You would sign up to be on the ‘do not intrude’ database, which spammers were requested to use to cleanse their spam databases before sending out their crap.  If they did not, then Blue Security would send messages to the benefiting websites that they need to start filtering their spam.  It was starting become very effective and was working.

Until one of the more notorious spammers decided to wage war on Blue Security.  Not only did he shut their website off from the rest of the world, but rumor had it that blue security employees were threatened with their lives.  As a result, Blue Security gave up on a very promising business to explore ways to make use of their technology….because of 1 spammer.

One way to battle this seamy business is to place controls on internet use/access so that if someone is not playing by the rules, at least they can be found and made to pay the price.  Given the unlikelihood that we could get the world to agree to new rules, our only choice is to NOT PATRONIZE SPAM.  I made these big letters so that readers would get the point…the only reason the spammers keep spamming is greed….as long as they make money, they will continue. 

So, this is my first intro post to the category, and will probably post others along the way….they will probably be more like ‘rants’ than anything else, but what a great way to vent!