I just started a road trip to do a massive loop of the west: New Mexico to Montanta to Washington/Vancouver to San Diego/Tijuana and back to New Mexico. Check out my travel blog at http://www.travelingcargopants.com/
A seven-minute video about cats. It gets pretty funny…
Epic world war — may kill most of us, but a few tribes here and there will survive and humanity will gradually rebuild.
Global warming — may cause a lot of destruction to the earth, probably will kill most animals that can’t adapt, but humans and plants are very adaptable and will survive.
Comet or meteor — possible, though Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Billy Bob Thornton would find a way to save us. I highly doubt that humanity wouldn’t find a way out of a real threat.
Sun dying (the movie Sunshine) — by the time this happens, we would already have populated other solar systems.
Rise of the robots/nanos (iRobot, Matrix, Terminator, etc.) — Doubtful, since AI creators would be smart enough to program something in which would prevent that from happening … or the military would be advanced enough to destroy it.
Muslims declare Jihad on the entire world and take everything over — not likely since in general they fight like cowards and most of them still throw stones
Epic space battle with aliens (the book Ender’s Game) — Doubtful we would be killed completely. More likely we would be colonized.
Supercollider experiment gone wrong (i.e. black hole) — highly doubtful, but minutely possible
Plague that kills everybody (30 days later, I am Legend, etc.) — the world is too vast for this kind of thing to reach everywhere, and viruses need hosts to live in, so it would die before reaching everyone. Or, it would cause people to mutate, so there’d still be some remnant of humanity.
Honestly I can’t imagine a scenario where humanity kicks the bucket completely. Do you have any good ideas?
A few fun sites that I visit on a regular basis to get my daily laughs…
For those of you who like keeping your hands on the keyboard as much as possible, there’s an awesome utility called Launchy that lets you launch any website link that’s in your bookmarks, or any other file on your system by just typing it’s name into a popup window (using the hotkey that you define).
And here are some great tips from Lifehacker to add a whole lot more functionality.
I recently worked with another developer to convert a lot of MSSQL stored procedures into PHP/MySQL functions. Along the way I learned a bunch of new things which I figured would be helpful to you.
The MSSQL “ISNULL(expr1,expr2)” equivalent in MySQL is “IFNULL()”.
The MSSQL “TOP” keyword (to limit returns returned) equivalent in MySQL is “LIMIT”.
SQL query strings that are built with dynamic data (such as form data) are *always* susceptible to SQL injection attacks. Here’s a few discussions to keep you safe:
Here’s a couple more links which may be helpful but which I didn’t really get far into reading…
If you need some coding help, or better yet you want to hire me for a coding project, leave a comment for me on this article and I’ll get in touch with you =)
It is popularly thought that a great place to meet chicks is at a gay bar.
Two guys put that concept to the test…
Scientists have recently discovered a second ring of Limbo here on earth. It can be observed in the lives of various families living unremarkable lives in suburbia.
http://www.break.com/index/i-guess-youll-do1.html
I have many friends who are very happily married and that’s great… but personally I’m glad that I’m no longer in a relationship right now.
One of the greatest headaches for a web developer is making sure things work the same regardless of platform or browser. One of the biggest problems for a Windows-only guy like me, is making sure that things work on a Mac — specifically Safari. But, those days are over…
Apparently Safari is now being developed for Windows. It uses the open-source WebKit browser engine. I downloaded and installed it on my XP box, however it crashed immediately every time I tried to run it. While Googleing for a fix, I learned that there is another web browser called Swift which is being developed from the same engine. Although it’s super dumbed down and has a few bugs of it’s own, it was able to work well enough to show me the same problems that I saw on a friend’s Mac running Safari. Woohoo!
Science Daily has an interesting article that discusses possible tipping points in the earth’s climate systems. It asserts that an increase in temperature by a few degrees Celcius in specific places in the world could cause major irreversable ecological changes that could potentially have a huge impact on the climate and ecosystem of the rest of the earth.