Mortaine’s Blog

Last night I programmed a MySQL database and learned how to do a simple query in PHP!!! Hooray!!!!!!!!

This is so awesome. Really, I cannot believe how incredibly cool this is. Now I know enough to be dangerous– I can program my students’ grade pages to have a dynamically-generated grade entry.

In a couple of weeks, I might even figure out how to do access control with PHP and MySQL!

I’ve gotten this one three times now:

The phone rings. The caller ID says something like “Low-Cost Mortgages!” and a phone number. I pick up (otherwise it’ll go to the answering machine, and the ringing phone annoys me). Dial-tone.

Yes, they are now using my Caller ID as their advertising venue. An intrusive phone call with a hang-up, and a caller-id message to get their ad across.

Do these people actually think this will work?