Avoiding Thunderstorms the FedEx Way

Great time-lapse video of a radar screen tracking FedEx planes landing in Memphis as they avoid a thunderstorm: FedEx arrivals during Thunderstorms.
I assume the ones near the end that turn back to the right and then disappear are landing at another airport rather than just crashing into a corn field somewhere….
(Via Accordion Guy)

Jonathan Needs a Mac

Click this link to help Jonathan buy his very first Mac. The poor fellow is forced to use Windows at work for eight hours a day and currently barely gets by at home by using Ubuntu Linux (a free OS no less, the horror). He’s a decent sort of guy, fairly bright, very friendly, so [...]

Why No One Has To Win the Lottery

Apparently tonight’s Ontario lottery is worth $35 million. That’s a lot of cash, enough for the media to do a piece on it in the news tonight. One common remark from everyone interviewed: “Someone’s gotta win it so why not me?”
Besides the shear improbability of anyone with a ticket winning (in this case greater than [...]

Vatican: Creationism == Superstitious Paganism

This really ought to nail shut the whole “debate” between creationism and science. The Vatican’s astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno (whom I’ve written about before) has come out quite clearly, frankly and harshly against those who believe in creationism and a literal interpretation of the Bible (including that of a vengeful god, the type who’d rain [...]

Subversion: Connection is Read-Only

If you’re connecting to a Subversion repository that you think you ought to have write privileges for and you get a “Connection is Read-Only” error check your svnserve.conf file to make sure you haven’t forgotten to enable write access (Subversion repositories are read-only by default). You probably want to see a line like this in [...]

Determining the Installation Path of Your PHP Script

Back in April Ben XO posted this incredibly handy chunk of PHP that figured out the installation path of the script that executes it, relative to the server’s root.
I like my code wrapped in classes and functions, and I reserve uppercase notation for constants so I’ve re-formatted it thusly:

function getInstallationPath()
{
   $realScriptDir = realpath( dirname( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] [...]

iWantItToStop

iWoke up this morning and decided to browse through the latest listing on MacUpdate while downing that first, and ever so important, can of Dr. Pepper. iHadn’t been to MacUpdate in a long, long time - generally iBrowse their listings via RSS and so seldom need to actually look at the site - but this [...]

Susur Lee vs. Bobby Flay

It’s not often I get excited by the Food Network but this Wednesday: Susur Lee vs. Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America.
Normally I also wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about Iron Chef America, that bastardization of the original Iron Chef that seems to have taken over, but this is Susur Lee and he hails from [...]

Hacker 1, Stephen Harper 0

And you thought being a commuter on the GO train was boring:

Exclusive Advertising has received reports of an LED message being displayed on the trains stating that “STEPHEN HARPER EATS BABIES”. We would like to take this opportunity to advise the public that these ads are the result of a hacker who has unlawfully tampered [...]

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