Have you ever had a PHP method (a function inside a class, in case you’re new to the whole OOP thing) cause a "Fatal Error: Call to undefined function 'whatever'..." even though you are 100% sure that the method has been defined?

You’re missing the $this-> before your call to the method. :P

x * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30, where x would be the speed of the internet connection.

There’s no point in selling someone 30mb/sec cable internet access if they can still only download as much data as I can on my 1mb/sec DSL in a month.

I’m tired of all this talk of bandwidth caps and such. ISPs, give your customers what they’re paying for. Internet access is expensive enough as it is without making things worse.

Or at least provide the option for a customer to pay for more usage instead of cutting them off entirely…

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Yeah, and I’m Bill Gates. *Delete all spam messages*

Today, a new post was added by a previously unregistered user. It read:

Hello boys and girls ;-)
Somebody can give me url to the XRumer’s homepage?
Or maybe some info…

Thank you very much!!!

It sounded innocuous, if a little odd at first, but when I Googled “XRumer,” wondering what it was, I cam up with this Wikipedia page.

XRumer is a Windows program that posts forum spam with the aim of boosting search engine rankings. It has been claimed that the program is able to bypass techniques commonly used by many websites to deter automated spam, such as account registration, CAPTCHAs, and e-mail activation before posting. The program makes heavy use of a database of known open proxies in an attempt to make it more difficult for administrators to block posts.

Nice. So you’re asking me, a legitimate forum operator, to point you in the right direction to find a tool to spam forums, such as mine? I don’t think so. *Delete*

First, I checked the local Best Buy, a mere two days after the new device was released, to see if they had it. They didn’t. A little disappointing, but no big deal, after all it had only been a couple days since the keynote.

So I started monitoring the Best Buy website, so I’d know as soon as it came in. About a week after the keynote, the site updated to show that it was available, yay! So after driving in to town, and asking asking for the device, I was told that they were sold out (if they’d ever even had it at all…). In only a few hours they were sold out. And that was the 8GB model anyway. Somewhere along the line I decided it would be better to get the 16GB.

A few days after, the Best Buy website updated again to show the 8GB model was in stock, but not the 16GB. Apparently they’re not stocking the larger model at all…

Luckily, an Apple store had opened in my state, they’ve been open for a week today, and they of course had all of the iPod models in stock. So I ended up in the car two hours both ways, on a trip to the über-cool Apple store. I got the iPod and that was that.

Oh well, I’d much rather Apple made some extra cash than Best Buy.

When Jobs pulled that Nano out of his pocket, it’s size shocked me. It’s tiny. The accelerometer features in it are really cool too. But really, watch the keynote.

If you don’t like the way wind turbines look, then don’t look at them. You can go and live in an electricity-less cave somewhere. Do you like the way coal plants look? Didn’t think so…

And besides, couldn’t you just fit cages to the windmills, in a similar manner to household fans, to prevent the birds from running into the blades?

So if you want to save the birds, stop driving your car and get rid of your windows (and buy a Mac).

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I bet you never saw that.

Before you upload anything you’ve created to a social networking/video/blogging site, make sure you read the ToS. You want to know what you’re agreeing to before you upload your work.

Have you uploaded music you wrote to MySpace? Guess what, they can use it for whatever you want. Because you agreed to it.

If you’re not okay with the possibility of Facebook or MySpace using your pcitures, movies, musi, etc, don’t upload it. While they may not actually make use of it, they can if they want.