I have a remote control!!!
I've never cared to get a big TV. Not that my room would have room for it anyway. Anyway, for the longest time I had this really really old 13 inch TV. It had two dials on it for the channels. Then when my little brother got a nice 25 inch TV for his birthday when (probably when) he was 12 (he's 16 1/2 now) he gave me his 13 inch TV.
So, you say, still 13 inches, what's the big deal? Well, this one was newer, at least, so I traded up. Thing is, I thought he had told me his remote control was broken... and not just that the remote control was broken, but that the input on the TV for the remote control was broken.
So, half a decade later, I decide to check for myself (I wish I remembered what spurred the thought on). My brother doesn't have a universal remote, so I ran to the kitchen to get the remote for that TV.
I found a page that has codes for RCA Universal Remote Controls, followed the instructions for entering in the code, and after pushing the On/Off button 30 or so times as part of the programming process, my TV turned off!!! Wow!
I was in disbelief, so I pushed the on button again to see if it would turn on. It did! But then when I tried turning it off again it didn't work. So I was confused for a second, until I realized that by turning it on, I had made the remote cycle through its next code, so it wasn't set for my TV anymore! Curses!.
So I repeated the entire programming process, and now I have a remote!!! I'm 22 years old and I've never had a remote for my TV before. Even more frustrating (in a way), I've had a remote for my VCR, so I could change the channels and everything, but I could never turn the TV on or off. All I needed was a remote with one big button on it labeled ON/OFF, but I didn't have it.
Damned if I'm giving the kitchen remote back!!
Later...
Groowawoorrarrrrrr!!! (Gorilla roar). I have so much power right now! I realized that I can program the remote for my VCR too, and it worked after a few tries!!!
Check it out. My VCR had this dumb remote with a flip up thing that broke off a long time ago. Unfortunately, some useful controls were on the flip up thing, such as the channel up and channel down buttons. So if I wanted to scroll through the network channels, I'd have to hit 0+2, 0+4, 0+5, 0+7, etc. And when you have like 75 channels you want to go through, it can be a pain, right? I did it for years... I don't have to do it any more. I have channel up/channel down buttons!! Whoo I'm excited.
The Osbournes is a pretty amazing show.
Suzanne Somers is my mom?!
Great Jobs at Google
10 Things Google has found to be true:
1) Focus on the user and all else will follow.
2) It's best to do one thing really, really well.
3) Fast is better than slow.
4) Democracy on the web works.
5) You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer.
6) You can make money without doing evil.
7) There's always more information out there.
8) The need for information crosses all borders.
9) You can be serious without a suit.
10) Great just isn't good enough.
In a word, Google's goal is to do important stuff that matters to a lot of people. In pursuit of that goal, we've developed a set of values that drive our work, including one of our most cherished core values: "Don't be evil."
Google is awesome, and the page says they're profitable, which I didn't know. Check out their descriptions of some of the stuff they do: "Designing and improving software that can crawl and index billions of web pages and other documents, comprising 20+ TB of raw data, in a few days.... Developing efficient implementations for large-scale mathematical problems, such as running Google's Pagerank™ algorithm on a graph of 3 billion nodes and 20 billion edges."
and on an on! They're amazing. This is the kind of stuff I'm going to school for. I'd love to know that I could work for a company like Google. Right now I wouldn't have anything to offer, but I'd hope to.
Man, it's a shame Ladybugs isn't on DVD yet.
Quote of the day:
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
That's a paraphrase, unfortunately. The quote was from coach Knight from Indiana.
Quote of the day:
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
That's a paraphrase, unfortunately. The quote was from coach Knight from Indiana.
World's Smallest Political Quiz. I found the results interesting. I came out to be a "centrist". I expected to be a conservative. The reason it couldn't place me enough to the right was because I didn't take a strong enough stand on the economic issues.
The economic issues are often pragmatic matters rather than moral matters. Free trade is better when you can get it, but sometimes tariffs are necessary, etc.
Anyway, the questions were a sometimes little too vague, but I found the quiz interesting.
Via PHPEverewhere, PHP-GTK : A new way to use PHP power, an interview with Andrei Zmeivsky.
Did you start the PHP-GTK to support some other project ?
Andrei : No, there was no planning for any other projects. Initially I wasn't sure it could even be done, and as I worked on it, several deficiencies in Zend Engine had to be corrected. Large portions of Zend Engine 2 are also influenced by PHP-GTK.
I can't wait until I finish my stupid XML-RPC interface to my blog. Then I can stop having to post in a web browser 
I keep having trouble with creating my responses with the XML-RPC library I'm using, which I'm not totally happy with. It's more complicated than it has to be, and I had to change the code to make an error message more descriptive so I could find out what method blogBuddy was trying to call. That's how I discovered getRecentPosts() in the first place.
I'm still mad it wasn't in the spec.
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