Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again…

This is not what my front yard looks like today, but it is my front yard. It’ll be warm again sometime soon won’t it?

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Cornerstone

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PHP + BBEdit + RegEx for code generation get/set functions

Here’s a handy way to generate getter/setter functions. I use BBEdit, but since this is based on Regular Expressions it could be done in just about any code editor. Say you start a class and have defined the following private member variables: private $ip_range_id; private $subscriber_id; private $low_ip; private $high_ip; The next thing I commonly [...]

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Tasty Chicken Parmesan Sandwich, Thanks Real Deal

The Real Deal Deli (JP)

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Checking IP Ranges for Sanity / Validity

This doesn’t cover a lot of cases so it is really a sanity check for IP Ranges. It takes two IP addresses a low one and a high one and makes sure they are valid IPv4 addresses and it take a look to make sure (at least I hope it makes sure, anyone want to [...]

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Configure OpenX Maintenance Scripts on SliceHost

Setup: SliceHost 1gb RAM Xen VPS x86_64 CentOS 5.2 MySQL 5.0.45 PHP 5.1.6 (cli) Apache 2.2.3 OpenX 2.6.3 Unless you love vi, set your environment’s EDITOR first. For me, this is the most important part of the process. I hear the cool kids use nano these days. I work at MIT so I feel like [...]

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Progress of E62, the new MIT Sloan Building

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Reading List – 2009 (January)

Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed Angler, (Gellman 2008) – 1/4/2009 Hot, Flat and Crowded, (Friedman 2008) – 1/14/2009 When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Sedaris 2009) – 1/21/2009 How Fiction Works (Wood 2009) – 1/26/2009 Imperial Life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq’s green zone (Chandrasekaran 2006) – 1/28/2009 McSweeney’s [...]

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Blue skies smilling at me / Nothing but blue skies do I see

Go sun, go. Show the muddy ice who’s boss!

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The walk to work

After the snow, rain and overnight freezing temperatures, this is what greets you in the morning. I have a car, but I choose to take public transportation because I don’t want to me yet another solo-commuter in a car burning carbon left and right so I can listen to NPR and complain about traffic. Days [...]

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