Monthly Archives: June 2007

And we’re off

So now back off to the vet to pick up the dog who’s gonna spend most of the next few weeks being MISERABLE because he’s gonna have to be crated a a LOT, wont be able to play with the other dogs at all for a while, and will have to wear a satellite-dish-collar. On [...]

quick update

Well… everything that could go wrong this weekend (outside work) has gone wrong. My replay tv is dying My wifes laptop is dying I have one dog getting out of surgery right now because of a hematoma I have one cat with ringworm One cat got the crap beat up out of her in a [...]

Off to the vets office

Actually it’s an eye specialist. My poor Bella’s eye (which has a detached lens and possibly glochoma (sp?)) has really been acting up the last several days. Wish her (and my wallet) luck!

The iPhone… Its not even out yet and everyone is drooling over it

And if they aren’t, they should be!  Ajax has long been the missing link between phones as a mobile computing platform and phones as a simple messaging device.  the fact is that there is a vastly larger poll of people willing to write useful web apps than useful java apps.  I would also argue that [...]

When simple plans attack!

Well at the zoo we lost a pair of glasses, so off to lensecrafters… no eye exam in 3 years… so eye exam… 2 hors for glasses… and WHAM a day thats supposed to end at 4:00pm ends at 9:00pm… sigh… we now return you to your regularly scheduled blogging.

Adventures in babysitting

So apparently I, and my wife, are signed up to babysit… well… a baby (or very young kid)… so I guess I’ll be on my best behavior and do my best not to step on her by accident   Seriously though… We’ll be going to the zoo, so thats cool.  I haven’t been to a [...]

“Somebody steal it already”

Thre’s a car alarm going off across the street.  Been going off for like 10 minutes now.  All my wife can say is “somebody steal it already!”  I maintain that for this very reason car alarms don’t work: Nobody cares.  My wife didnt look, I didnt look, heck the owner figured it was somebody else’s [...]

nasty regex

I’m putting this here for documentation purposes… Because getting it right was a very frustrating ordeal (I’d never had to match both positively and negatively in the same regex before) /^(?(?!.+\.php)^.*(\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.ico|\.png)|^$)/s what this is, essentially, saying is “true if the string doesnt match ^.+\.php and the string matches ^.*(\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.gif|\.ico|\.png)” The last bit: “|^$” never returns [...]