Archive For February 16th, 2005

Canadian Dollar.. Why the interest?

Funny that, you can be working away at the office and notice something that sparks your interest but there’s no time to look into it. I noticed earlier today that there was quite a bit of interest in the Canadian Dollar but it only became apparent later why when I searched for Canada! Thanks Alan [...]

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vfat (Very Fat?) Linux

This article is a good read if you access Windows/DOS drives from Linux. The author explains how to access those drives, as well as some of the restrictions and problems when using vfat drives. NTFS is also an option of course, but as Linux only has read-only access to that, vfat is a better solution [...]

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Hell Froze Over – GAA to debate Rule 42

No link yet to more news, but I just heard on TodayFM that the GAA will debate Rule 42, the rule that bans “foreign sports” from being played in Croke Park, and other GAA property. Finally, it’s happening. If it’s deleted I’m sure the Devil will build a snowman to celebrate! Later… RTE has more [...]

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Validate Email Address in PHP

It’s a common task but one that I haven’t looked at in as much detail as this devshed article. There’s a few bugs in the code, and a function was posted to the comments that’s all over the place.. here’s the same PHP function, cleaned up, to verify an email address. Note that it won’t [...]

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At The End Of The Day

Yesterday was a glorious day. It was one of those rare days when the sun shone, and blue skies were the rule. It finished with this lovely sunset as I drove home. So of course I had to stop and risk life and limb by running onto a narrow bridge while rush hour traffic edged [...]

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