Fancy Express to Nowhere
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Hollywood is locked in a digital arms race -- every few weeks, it seems, a studio releases a film featuring a new breakthrough in computer-generated imagery.
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Fancy an airplane trip that takes you nowhere, costs about &#36;3,000, and may make you vomit?
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Gareth Heyes has posted another challenge to his blog - this time it involves using a regular expression to convert the inputted string into the output he's given.   After the success of my "a bit of fun" challenge, a few people asked for some more challenges. So I was answering a question on a mailing list that I'm a member of and I thought it would be a good topic for a little challenge and help sharpen everyone's regular expression skills.   This time, his challenge involves taking the input, rail start/end locations from an array and, via the PHP script given (no regular expression in it, of course) make the output, a sort of JSON formatted message. It's already been answered, but if you want to, try it yourself first then read the answer below the post.
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Check out the most ridiculous way to lose a bundle.
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As long-time Pogueâs Postians are aware, Iâm obsessed with the signs in airplanes. Now Iâve got another one for you, from an American jet I just flew to California: CAUTION OPEN DOOR SLOWLY DOOR OPENS INTO AISLE Itâs 2008. Do they really still not have any punctuation available in those fonts? Pogue Unplugged.
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Massachusetts-based start-up has created a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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In case you havent been keeping up with the Geeks and Nerds, welcome to the brave new world of the ExpressCard -- and whether you leave home without it or not, youd better be prepared for it if you buy a new laptop.
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Cancel the limo. Put down the dining guides and leave your overcoat in the closet. A power breakfast or lavish business dinner is just an elevator ride away.
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Richard Thomas has decided to change the name of his project from the generic "Pjq" to something a bit more distinctive - jQPie.   I have expanded on this further, found a tastier name and now have a project page up http://projects.cyberlot.net/trac/jqpie/wiki. Added an cheesy jQuery/Interface autocomplete example although I would of preferred a json approach to the xml but it works never the less.   The jQPie project provides a way to link Javascript and PHP easily through the jQuery library with simple requests to use things JSON statements and direct output in your Javascript application.
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According to this security release from Secunia, there's a cross-site scripting vulnerability with the Travelsized CMS package (PHP-based) in the main index file.   David Vieira-Kurz has discovered some vulnerabilities in Travelsized CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.   The problem comes from the input parameters "page" and "langauge" not being verified and sanitized. Users are encouraged to go in and manually edit the source to correct the problem as there is no patch currently posted as of yet. You can get complete information about this issue from the full Secunia report.
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Life & style: Anna Tims: Royal Mail recorded deliveries are not tracked. The customer is paying 70p extra just for a signature at the door.
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Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of the children&#39;s classic The Polar Express, is a low-tech kind of guy. He prefers the feeling of pastels and paper
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Amyloo was digging around the NY Times code weblog and found this OPML file, weighing in at a monstrous 3.3MB that contains some mysterious but rich data about the NY Times and a guide to using the Times to cover special topics that I don't think anyone outside the Times knew existed, but there it is, in a public folder, so lets have a look.  1. There are 10522 top-level headlines. There's no structure to the OPML, it's absolutely flat. Here's an HTML rendering of the list: timestopics.html.  2. It's a subscription list. Each item has four attributes, type, title, htmlUrl and xmlUrl.  3. The htmlUrl for each element points to a page of stories for the topic. For example, here's a page of stories about table tennis. On that page is a link to an RSS 2.0 feed containing the same information.  4. The xmlUrl links for at least some of the elements are broken, the error appears to be very simple, if you replace the ampersand with a question mark, it works.  If you look around at the topics you'll see it's an incredibly rich set of data. Here are just some of the topics that begin with the letter T: Tableware, Taste, Tattoos, Tax Credits, Tax Evasion, Taxation, Taxicabs and Taxicab Drivers, Tea, Teachers and School Employees, TED Conference News, Teflon, Telephones and Telecommunications, Television, Television Sets, Table Tennis, Terra Cotta, Terrorism, Tests and Testing, Textbooks, Thanksgiving Day.
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ONE Christmas ritual should be a lot cheaper this year for anybody with broadband. Calling friends and relatives just about anywhere in the world now costs nothing, or just over 1p a minute (0.02 to be exact
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Although frankly I really didn't feel the need to read the entire thread, I can tell you that the posting to the PHP 3 mailing list is related to the Smarty Templating Engine back in the day. In fact, I believe this was the original spec Andrei proposed before Smarty even existed. Although I don't remember the exact e-mail, this posting reminded me that there was a point in time I thought exactly this way... quoting myself:
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Hoping to get some work done on a recent train trip to New York, I kicked back, opened my laptop, and clicked on Microsoft Excel. Up popped a prompt asking for the original program disk. Same thing with Word and PowerPoint. Nothing would run.
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What to do when that 1040 EZ form turns out to be anything but "EZ."