Interesting SQL function: LOCATE(substr, str)

MySQL LOCATE Documentation

This is by far the best online implementation of the game 'Settlers' that I have found.

of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"

Asus's latest soundcard @ /., not a bad read.

Another one of those generic, overused window treatment style terms that applies to many different things. It describes any fabric treatment which tops a window and doesn't extend beyond more than a third of the length of the window.

(Read the full article for more definitions that I selected [google provided a TON..])

PHP instrospection via the Reflection Class

How to change a users UID in Linux.

Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.

Seen here and here.

Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard

New punctuation update "~" (no quotes) at the end of a line to indicate sarcasm.

JavaScript Error:

 this.form.submit is not a function.

The cause of the error was that the submit buttons id was "submit". Sneaky and somewhat lame!

Refer to: http://www.webprodevelopment.com/BrightLight/2006/05/04/thisformsubmit-is-not-a-function-really-its-an-object/

JavaScriptLibraries.com has a decent listing of JS libs.

I have been looking (on and off) for a safe JavaScript compression utility or library for almost a year. Shrinksafe looks very promising. I'm sure it will be better than the vim script that I created.. (:

Envy is a very helpful tool for setting up the configuration for your graphics card video driver in Ubuntu.