Yes, we over use the Internet, we take it for granted and we find ourselves panicking without it. All true, however for a South Park episode “Over Logging” is disappointing. It fails to engage any action, that is if it intended to do so. The premise of the internet as one big router, in this case a Linksys [...]

Assignment Class is cancled on November 22, 2011. I want you to produce a small blog talking about thse three inventions. These are three ideas that I have had over the years that I have since abandoned. I would like you all to critique them on how creative you think they are and how well [...]

What marketing experts will tell you, is that branding, street cred, public perception are herculean issues to overcome for anyone.  Take for example the myth of the hypertechnical German Army during WWII. The leaders of Germany created a gimmick image to scare and impress their opponents. In reality, the Germans seriously lacked in motorized transport [...]

Those who want to help can go to www.redcross.org and donate to Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami. Gifts to the American Red Cross will support our disaster relief efforts to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific. People can make a $10 donation by texting REDCROSS to 90999. Their donation will go [...]

I have been going crazy trying to find a solution to displaying the post featured thumbnail information. Everywhere I look there are examples of displaying the attachments of a post and their info, but not the featured thumbnail and its info. Since WP 2.9, the get_the_post_thumbnail has been wildly/widely used, its awesome, enough said. But [...]

It may be somewhat arrogant or racist to call this a truly German film. I can’t help it, my upbringing has been with stereotypes and conceptions about cultures and people. When I say truly German, I am trying to convey the film’s dedication to blunt reality. This is not a fairytale, its not a love [...]

My family and I think many other families have been waiting for this historic announcement for the last 20 years. My whole childhood I was puzzled as to why can’t my father work on the Mac when doing his “architect” stuff. As I grew up we always carried in the house a Windows Computer admits our Mac orgy.  I think [...]

First time I finally got the chacnce to take pictures of fireworks, I used my 70-200 F4L mounted on my Canon 40D on a Manfrotto monopod. For starters a monopod is not ideal for fireworks, a tripod with a remote shutter releaser connected or wireless to the camera would have produced much better pictures. Its ok there is next year. The idea is to [...]

Was going to the eye doctor and saw this girl walking in front of me, about half a block ahead of her turned and took some pics, unfortunately she looked at the camera and gave a weird face for most of them, I don’t blame her I would be shocked to if an almost foot long lens was pointed at me, but these two are [...]

Today I was chained an email, my father had sent it to me, questioning as to why it was in Russian and yet it wanted to reach 40 million people. A quick Google Russian to English Translate, than a Google search yielded me the original Article by Sebastian Vivar Rodriguez. ( You can read the article on the bottom of this post. Summarizing the chain email: Auschwitz killed the [...]

I need to clean this set further, but its ok from around 700 pics, should get about 10 goof ones

I consider myself a somewhat sane and tasteful person. I am not proclaiming that I am better than anyone, in anything. That said the new website of the Eastern Armenian Diocese of America produces such disgust and biter taste in my mouth, that I could not hold back. Hence I contacted the two parties responsible for this schijten. The website in question is armenianchurch-ed.net and below is [...]

New York Times’s A. O. SCOTT would be my best friend if i could be his friend. Scott writes the truth about summer movies, nothing but the truth, hope you can handle the truth. “Every year it’s the same, and every year it’s worse than ever”. This is particularly true about when one is bombarded with “darn sequels”, like [...]

It may be unwise to proclaim that there is such a golden age at all pertaining to the Internet, even more to say that it has ended and the future is lost thanks to our immaturity. Immanuel Kant answers the question, “What is enlightenment”?, “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity”, in An Answer [...]

my take is that it was a distraction for another crime blocks of buildings were evacuated, i might be a little hollywood high here, but if i am a thief this is one good distraction buying real explosives would have left trails, and this way the police would burry the case sooner or later because [...]

here is my response to their bollox , their survey is attached on the bottom I went to a high school that had club hour, when i told friends in other schools that we had club hour, they would be very very envious. Its not the “free” time, its the opportunity to interact with my classmates. When [...]

Website interface and function rebuild Vitamovie.com serves to a small community of asian movie enthusiasts. The community is compromised of mostly non-American visitors; the Alexa.com lists United Arab Emirates and Singapore as the top sources of visitors additionally Google Analytics lists Singapore, Philipines and Great Britain as the top 3 sources. Additionally the majority of the 1,530 registered [...]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/components/spectra/spectra.html News aggregator visualization. In color, detects color. Cool design and lots of fun, but not truly useful, unless the content delivery medium is interactive itself the content looses its purpose. Marshall McLuhan ”preached” studying media separate from content. The the Spectra is a prime example, it aggregates content, but the delivery is a content by itself. Personally I think its cool, but not truly useful.

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I would like to express my unique relationship with the twilight movies/books It was around 2 Am saturday morning, i had watched all the episodes of that week, and had seen like 3 other movies, bored to the bone and still not feeling sleepy, i convinced myself to watch twilight. Now the movie was shit, [...]

Earlier i made a post concerning this email that i had received. Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program. This summary notice is being sent to you by Court Order so that you [...]

I love getting spam mail some of them are so creative. here is one that I just received Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program.  This summary notice is being sent to you [...]

Original Link  http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/12/chat-with-evan-ratliff 2:54 Nicholas Thompson: Welcome to the chat with Evan Ratliff about his time on the run. We’ll begin in six minutes at 3pm sharp. Have your questions ready. I’ll also be submitting questions from the #askevan twitter feed and from my email inbox. To refresh your memories, here’s his story: http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ 2:59 [...]

Go to wired people, you have the liited opertunity to have a live chat with Evan Ratliff, the human test subject of disappearing. LINK To refresh your memories, here’s his story: http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/

On monday nov 30, YouTube stopped working around 5 PM Eastern Time. Now this is my case, and my friend who is also on the same ISP (Cabelvison). I live at Brighton 2nd st 11235 and he lives about a mile away from me. His situation was quite weird, he was telling me that Youtube [...]

So the YouTube shortage is limited to different areas and ISPs, In NYU Poly in Brooklyn YouTube and its videos are loading, I guess people have to submit where and when its not working :(

I am in NYC, and YouTube has been down for me for about 15 hours, its ok i think, we can survive without youtube, well i can, the alternative sources of video are abundant, well anyways got to go to school will keep cheking if it loads for me :)

I just watched this trailer, Date Night, with Tina-Fey and Steve Carell, it will be out in April 2010, the trailer is very funny, and wanted to share it, but there was no cover so I made one using a pic of the the comedians that I found on google. I always liked making posters lol, [...]

since youtube has not been working i have been looking videos at other sources, its very very sad Shaolin Monk Balances On 2 Fingers @ Yahoo! Video

In this new age of the internet, its not a single text anymore, its a blog post, leading to facebook likes, and tweets and diggs and retweets, its not just SEXT, its the whole internet haunting you forever, so be careful. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

YouTube has been down for me for the past 4 hours the only other report i could find is this http://mashable.com/2009/11/01/youtube-down-outage/ The site actually loads after about 4 minutes, but the css does not load. I have been panicking, but I guess I am not the only one, I had already started runnig around the [...]

this is the comment i left at wired – http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/america-catering-to-hollywood/ Am I Scared? Should we be scared? Will this make our lives very very irritating and our doings on the Internet will become the loss of our privacy. Piracy gives us privacy, has anyone thought of this? By pirating I do not leave any record [...]

I just recieved an email from wowaccountadmin@blizzard.com, funny email address, but i did not notice it since i was reading the email instead that stated I have been trying to sell my WoW account and it would be banned unless I respond to this email. I was already replying to it (what dummy I am), [...]

The Illustrated Man: How LED Tattoos Could Make Your Skin a Screen LINK The possibilities of this technology are endless, to have an ability to display anything on your body is mind blowing. You can do so many things with this its just crazy :).

The article can be read here Hello Mr. Kimmelman, I have not been back in Armenia in 10 years and was interested to read your article. Unfortunately I would like to share by disappointment, because from reading your article I am left with a sad picture of Yerevan and its art. I remember the national [...]

Dir: Keith Schofield.Editors: Keith Schofield / Alan Capriles.Prod Co: El Nino.Director of photography: Damian AcevedoProducer: Steve BuchananExecutive Producer: Jules DiengPD: Mike BeamerExecutive Producer: Mourad BelkeddarCommisioner: Xavier De NauwLabel: EMI Justice / Lenny Kravitz “Let Love Rule” from Alanedit on Vimeo.

READ THIS http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-wins-cms-award/ Wow, now I am trully happy, I was talking with a high school admisitrator today, and he kept asking what is it that WordPress can deliver better than his current system with educationalnetworks.net. I was telling him about the easy publishing, the plugins, the real control over every pixel in the front [...]

Sometimes just surfing the internet lands you on interesting pages. I was first at webdesignerwall.com, than I clicked bestwebgallery.com, where I found makephotoshopfaster.com, where  clicked Dan Rubin’s Twitter LInk, twitter.com/danrubin, and from his twitter page I ended up on his personal site, superfluouslife.org. From there I clicked Professional and landed on sidebarcreative.com. There after looking [...]

Some how I was able to convince a client of mine to release their theme under the GPL license once it is complete. The main reason for the agreement was WordCamp I talked of the conference and the roundtable discussion concerning GPL and how it really can improve your product and allow you to gain [...]

I could not resist attending WordCamp this year. I am always busy during the NYC WordCamps but this time I canceled everything and committed my weekend to WordPress epicness. I also dragged camera gear and taped 12 hours of video (140 GBs in raw mov) which according to Jane (http://jane.wordpress.com/) will end up on wordpress.tv, [...]

Today i finally set some time aside to fix my friends site a bit and make some visual changes. The changes made are really cosmetic but they make in a way big differences. For example the usage of border radius. this simple css addition changes the presentation with minimal code change. -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; [...]

so i had table that was filled with spam after ID 22, meaning i wanted to delete everything after ID 22 here is the a simple line you can query to delete them all DELETE FROM `volunteers` WHERE `volunteers`.`id` >22 LIMIT 1000 ; so my table is called volunteers, and the controlling field is id, [...]

originally taken from here http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-get-youtube-video-screenshot.html A great little way of getting the any video link from a youtube video cool uses <script type="text/javascript"> function getScreen( url, size ) { if(url === null){ return ""; } size = (size === null) ? "big" : size; var vid; var results; results = url.match("[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)"); vid = ( results [...]

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For ech listener the input is: listener’s name song title length song title length song title length and there can be any number of them. For each listener, state their average song length After looping thorugh all the input and at the end state the average song length. Also state the longest and shorted song [...]

There a file of audio snippets in a form described below. Write a Java program to interact with a user to get a genre from them and produce a file containing all the audio snippets from the file snippets.all that match the chosen genre. The name of the output file should be the name of [...]

Song stats DOWNLOAD For ech listener in the input file there is: listener’s name song title minutes seconds song title minutes seconds song title minutes seconds and there can be any number of them. Notice that there is a space between the minutes and seconds. For each listener, state their average song length After looping [...]

import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class banditWithValidation { public static void main(String[] args) { final double PRIZE_1 = 1; final double PRIZE_2 = 2; final double PRIZE_3 = 3; final double PRIZE_4 = 4; final double PRIZE_5 = 5; double userNum; String userName; String inputString; userName = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Hello there, whats your name?"); inputString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(userName + " [...]

TASK a program with a BIG crush on Ralph Same as before but this time say: You’re so CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE should be written some fixed number of times. After that modify your code (or better, write a different program) that asks Ralph what his favorite number is and write CUTE that [...]

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Write a program that does deals with passwords. A password for this problem is valid only if it’s in [4834..7483) or (89233..923182]. [ mean inclusive and ( means exclusive Don't let the user keep going until a valid password has been entered. Then and only then say WELCOME. import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class password { public [...]

We let students take courses Pass-Fail or for a letter grade. Get the user’s score (a double) and tell them what grade they are getting. You’ll also have to ask if they are taking the course Pass-Fail or for a letter grade. Do this by taking a yes or no answer to the question: “Are [...]

So I made version one some ages ago, here is version two, i am hoping i will keep working on it adding more to it and fixing cross browser issues —— v.2.1 Download arev v2.1 some changes added the famous Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan WP-PageNavi 2.40 its style has been changed a bit for the theme the plugin [...]

Bellow are some simple Java programs for beginners, they deal with boolean statements such as if else and switch case

below is the code needed to have mod_rewrite working on a lighttpd server First in your lighttpd.conf or 10-rewrite.conf enable mod_rewrite and then paste the following code (you will need to edit the $HTTP["host"] though): $HTTP["host"] =~ "gagrigs\.com" { url.rewrite-final = ( # Exclude some directories from rewriting "^/site/(wp-admin|wp-includes|wp-content|gallery2)/?(.*)" => "$0", # Exclude .php files at root from rewriting "^/site/(.*\.php)" [...]

If there is a wordpress function/feature that I cherish the most, it is the Custom Fields area. It can be used for almost anything from loading custom style sheets for pages, displaying extra information in your post, to anything. The uses are countless. I have used it incorporated with embedding video, ratings, and others. So for the first one i will [...]

while working on vitamovie.com theme they needed a download link for registered only users, the solution the custom field they used is videoembed, but you can use whatever you want, this is very useful if you have something in a custom field that you want registered users to see only ` <?php if (is_user_logged_in()){ echo ‘<a href= “‘ . get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘videoembed’, [...]

added 404.php with search added comments-popup.php and comments-popup.php – these two files are direct from the Kubrick v1.5 (default wordpress theme) changes to index.php added comment, categories, and tags and edit link the separator between posts p.s. added a screenshot.jpg :) Download arev v1.1

I made this incredibly simple theme that you see used here. its called AREV meaning sun in armenian, yet there is no warm colors that one would expect, idk maybe the sun is a bit cool? who knows, well here is the first version 1.0 made on Nov 24 2008 Download arev v1.0

One of the first wordpress websites that i worked on, the theme they use is OnDemand the website streams asian movies.  vitamovie.com the work mostly involved the implantation of custom fields and the use of them to show movie information such as movie poster director, year, country. The player area was also changed adding download for registered users of [...]

i needed a site to start showing my work on wordpress and also to showcase websites that i have been working on, so i went back on my server to see what website is have not being used and found my gagarigs.com and realized that i should be using this domain.