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Whenever I see my Bay to Breaker Zazzle 27934 profile picture, I always wonder if there will be more Bay to Breaker races to come. The race is not that long, and the path is just awesome going through SF’s financial district and the golden gate park. I have heard rumors saying there may not be enough sponsors to support the event, so I better not miss it this coming year! ;) ...

Matthias: That is not the only reason you are here. Douglas Quaid: I want to remember. Matthias: Why? Douglas Quaid: So I can be myself, be who I was. Matthias: It is each man’s quest to find out who he truly is but the answer to that lies in the present, not in the past. As it is for all of us. Douglas Quaid: But the past tells us who we’ve become. Matthias: The past is a construct of the mind. It blinds us. It fools us into believing it. But the heart wants to live in the present. Look there. You’ll find your answer. ...

一位富人想告訴她的兒子，什麼叫「貧窮」，就把他送到鄉下的窮親戚家。 他兒子在鄉下住了三天三夜。 在回城裡的路上，他父親在車裡問他：「你覺得怎麼樣？」 「挺好」，兒子回答。 「鄉下跟我們家有什麼區别嗎？」父親又問。 1.我們家有一條狗；他們家有四條。 2.我們家院子裡有個游泳池，裡面是處理過的水；他們家有個大池塘，水很清，裡面還游著各種各樣的魚。 3.我們的花園裡有電燈照明；他們的院子裡有星星和月亮照明。 4.我家的花園一直到圍牆邊；他們的院子一直延伸到天邊。 5.我們買飯吃；他們做飯吃。 6.我們聽CD；他們聽小鳥、青蛙和其它動物的音樂會，當他們在田裡幹活兒時，所有這些美妙的音樂都會伴随着他們。 7.我們使用微波爐做飯；可是他們的飯要好吃得多。 8.我們家四周都是圍牆；他們家任何時候門都是開著，迎接朋友們的到來。 9.我們與電話，電腦和電視緊密相連；他們與生活緊密相連，藍天，碧水，綠草，樹蔭和家庭。 最後兒子總結說：「謝謝，爸爸！你讓我看到我們有多麼的貧窮！」

This is a guide to set up a simple L2TP VPN connection. My mac mini server has mountain lion osx v. 10.8.2. I have also signed up for a “domain” at http://www.no-ip.com/. You may want to make sure you can ssh to your server first from the outside network before moving forward. I have my server behind a linksys router so I need to set up the router first. Bring up the router page, mine is at 192.168.1.1. Then click Security -> Firewall. Then uncheck the Block anonymous Internet Request. Yea, sounds scary isn’t it? Then click Save Settings, the router blacks out, then comes back. ...

Today I wanted to sftp a 10Gb file over the wire. Knowing that the transfer would fail in the middle of it, I decided to split this file into small pieces beforehand. Below I think is the easiest way on osx. // to split my huge file into 100mb files, having the prefix "bak_" split -b 100m my_huge_file.ext bak_ // to re-construct my huge file cat `ls bak_*` > my_huge_file2.ext After running the split command, you will see some files named bak_aa, bak_ab, etc in your directory. These are the chucks of your original huge file. So just transfer these small bak_* files over the wire. ...

Say you store a csv formatted string somewhere to represent an array. For example, Johnny has items “apple|orange|banana”. Then in your code, you may parse out the items as follows: $items = "apple|orange|banana"; // retrieve it from somewhere $my_arr = explode("|", $items); if (count($my_arr) > 0){ print "Johnny has something."; }else{ print "Johnny has nothing."; } It works fine as it seems. Well, actually, you will never see the “Johnny has nothing” print out. Surprisingly, even if $items is an empty string, explode will still return an array with one element. That array is: ...

[youtube &w=640&h=360] Makes me want to try as well… ;) http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/father-son-launch-toy-train-space-video-222733570.html

Very useful, so posting here. Read the php date function page for more details. $mysql_datetime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136782/format-mysql-datetime-with-php