Personally, I thought Nike was crazy when it signed Lebron James to a $90 million contract, but at least I could understand. Sure, he hadn’t even set foot on a basketball court as a professional, or even been drafted (though that is a done deal), but he has immediate short-term earning potential. He’s [...]
There are definitely some good things that are actually starting in cyberspace and bleeding back into realspace. For example, anti-spam laws, software, and thinking has led to a lot of real world thinking on phone and snail-mail spam. One great step forward will be the FTC’s new No-Call List. This is very [...]
Editor’s Note: Continuing with the tradition of posting some of my old weblog content, I’m offering up this gem from May 29, 2001, about two weeks after I arrived in China. Regular programming will resume as soon as I’m done with my little project, which will be soon.
Everyone talks about the globalization and, [...]
Jonathon Delacour is is talking about t.A.T.u., the Russian teenage possibly-lesbian musical sensation that has, I’m sure, kept a lot of lonely men awake at night. Their first single, All the Things She Said, was recommended to me a few months back by a number of friends almost simultaneously as “soft porn with lyrics” [...]
Below is a PHP function that reads UTF-8 encoded text and spits out entity-encoded text suitable for use in webpages (with the proper character encoding set, of course). I know that 99.6% of won’t have any use for this whatsoever, but since I couldn’t find an example of this on the Internet and had [...]