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Daily Archives: March 26th, 2002

Geek Talk

26-Mar-02

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 [...]

Phone spam

26-Mar-02

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 [...]