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Comment on Wordpress Plugins by Jared Vernier

Jared Vernier — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:39:53 +0000

Thx for a time saver in Jaybill.com » Blog Archive » Wordpress Plugins ! Jared Vernier

Comment on Things I Am So Totally Going To Do In 2010 by mo tabs

mo tabs — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:57:57 +0000

if interested in starting a new web property that might turn out some profit, let me know. i have an idea that i’m tossing around.

Comment on I Can’t F#%king See. by thomas

thomas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:34:39 +0000

i would say number 6, but you would have to put some tape in the middle regardless of if they were broken….

Comment on Using the Zend Framework with Multiple Databases by Steve Dowe

Steve Dowe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:03:53 +0000

Great tip, thanks very much.

For those who are having trouble implementing this after following a Zend Framework tutorial, note that the Orders class declaration will go into models/DbTable/Orders.php and not models/Orders.php.

This is because you are abstracting the Zend_Db_Table class.

HTH somebody!

Comment on Adventures in Car Ownership by Paint Repair Kits

Paint Repair Kits — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:44:31 +0000

Great post. I’ve been looking for this exact information for a while now. Bookmarked!

Comment on Zombiepunk. It’s the new Steampunk. by Doc B

Doc B — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:12:37 +0000

I have to be honest; I am very new to the whole Steam Punk movement attributing my first experience with the term “Steam Punk” with the movie Steam Boy, but now that I look back and think about it, I find that there are a large number of books, movies, and games that I have been exposed to that delved heavily into the aspects of Steam Punk. For me I think the entire Victorian Era is what attracts me the most. As I am currently limited to my exposure as I am deployed being in the military, but what I do get intrigues me and with sites like this that keep me informed on the ever growing theme. Thank you for your efforts and work keeping me entertained and giving me something to pass my time writing short stories about. (P.S. I also find it funny how we use the term punk, that we mostly use as a discriptive word for upstart or alien. ie that young punk kid… So would we be saying that Steam Punk is the new upstart in the neighborhood? And are we the old crusty adults looking down at the new kid on the block?)

Comment on Things I Am So Totally Going To Do In 2010 by Gray

Gray — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:29:27 +0000

Virtually doing the same stuff, I’d like to believe my web properties are ‘financially viable’ but not even by a longshot really.

good luck to ya

Comment on Laptop 2600 by Laptop: Decorated « Rich Tracks

Laptop: Decorated « Rich Tracks — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:01:39 +0000

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Comment on Conservatives and Climate Change by JJ Thayer

JJ Thayer — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:31:37 +0000

<3 I think my favorite take-away from this would be the imagined humor of said all-mighty being. It seems Rush has been watching a little too much of the Blue Collar tour. I wonder if aforementioned religious power also bowls strikes during thunderstorms and sneezes away trailer parks with tornadoes.

Comment on Zombiepunk. It’s the new Steampunk. by Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:32 +0000

I’ve never heard the term “salvagepunk” before! That’s awesome! I’m gonna start using that!

Comment on Zombiepunk. It’s the new Steampunk. by Jaybill McCarthy

Jaybill McCarthy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:58:51 +0000

@SMD Thanks for commenting. I think you kind of missed the point. I think the codification of genres and sub-genres is easily the worst thing that ever happened to fiction. It provides a lazy way for writers to crap out something they know will sell. As a result, we end up with piles of crap that exist for no other reason than to monetize a fad. I had hoped that by taking this idea to a humorous extreme that point would get made.

The fact that you devoted a paragraph plus to responding to this is almost as absurd as the article itself. (I’d give it to you, but hey, I did dig up that awesome cyberpunk picture.) But it’s like my great grandfather used to say, “There’s nothing funnier than arguing on the Internet.”

Also: You leave Sid Vicious out of this. The term “punk” has been co-opted by a lot of stupid things, not the least of which was early 70s punk music. Terms are repurposed. Meanings change. English is a living language. Deal with it or go work for the MLA. By your logic we should all still be speaking Middle English.

Comment on Zombiepunk. It’s the new Steampunk. by velvet

velvet — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:54:41 +0000

great post. thanks for the “punk” breakdown. love the new term – zombiepunk!

Comment on Zombiepunk. It’s the new Steampunk. by SMD

SMD — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:54:50 +0000

How exactly is Mad Max related to the zombie genre? It’s salvagepunk, certainly, but it has no connection to zombies unless you really want to fudge the connection.

On the other side of this, I see no point in adding the postfix “punk” to the zombie genre. There’s nothing punk about the genre, just as there’s very little punk about steampunk. The whole punk movement has been mistakenly turned into an aesthetic genre, easily applicable to any seemingly standardized subgenre within speculative fiction. The problem is that the attachment of punk ignores what is actually embodied by the original punk movement (before Hot Topic killed it) and by the literary forms that eventually made up cyberpunk (also not an aesthetic genre, despite being bastardized into the visual wasteland like all other buzzword genres that have sprung up in the last forty years).

That said, you can’t ignore the power of the zombie genre these days. It’s certainly made a lot of headway in the last fifteen years, pulling what was essentially a cult genre out of the land of obscurity into the mainstream. It’s good stuff. Zombie movies are the only horror flicks that actually scare me these days…

Comment on Wind Power and Hot Air by ecoInfographics « ink + carbon

ecoInfographics « ink + carbon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:01:44 +0000

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Comment on Using the Zend Framework with Multiple Databases by links for 2009-11-07 | AndySowards.com :: Professional Web Design, Development, Programming Freelancer, Hacks, Downloads, Math and being a Web 2.0 Hipster?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:35:14 +0000

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Comment on Sometimes, Numbers Lie by jeff

jeff — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:59:49 +0000

I thought 867-5309 was the loneliest number…

Comment on Let’s Get Our Heads in the Game by Jaybill McCarthy

Jaybill McCarthy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:48:32 +0000

@jeff That’s the spirit!

Comment on Let’s Get Our Heads in the Game by jeff

jeff — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:30 +0000

I would like the chance to consume even just one acre of pizza. Or rain forest.

Comment on Using the Zend Framework with Multiple Databases by Jaybill McCarthy

Jaybill McCarthy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:44:41 +0000

@chris jones – It’s not your ini file that’s missing, it’s the Zend Framework. “Fatal Error: Class ‘Zend_config_Ini’ not found in /path/to/index.php on line 6″ means that your script can’t find the Zend Framework classes. Check your include path or add the following line to your index.php

set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . “/path/to/ZendFramework/Zend”);

Make sure your include path is to the folder that contains “library”.