EBONICS: A Serious Analysis of African American Speech Patterns

I ran across this article and found it very interesting. If you listen carefully to some speech you can see many of the patterns outlined in this excellent article: EBONICS: A Serious Analysis of African American Speech Patterns.

Thinking About Dwarves

I found this awesome website called torsopants.com. Their sense of humor is very close to mine, and I'll be showing shirts I think are funny.

Excuses for falling asleep at work

A list of some of the best excuses for falling asleep at work:

They told me at the blood bank this might happen.

This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to.

I was working smarter - not harder.

Whew! I must've left the top off the liquid paper.

I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!

This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!

I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.

I'm in the management training program.

I'm actually doing a Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan (SLEEP) I learned at the last mandatory seminar you made me attend.

This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!

I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work related stress. Do you discriminate against people who practice Yoga?

Damn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem.

The coffee machine is broken....

Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot.

Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just wont wear off.

Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!

I wasn't sleeping. I was trying to pick up contact lens without hands.

The mail courier flipped out and pulled a gun so I was playing dead to avoid getting shot.

Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day.

Obama - Change You Can Believe In

Privyet Komrades!

A whole new era is ahead of us. And Robin Hood is in charge.

Money As Debt

Here is an interesting video about money and where it comes from ...

Internet Explorer and Youtube Compatibilty Issue Resolved

I had a CSR tell me that they couldn't get to a page on our website. He got a popup stating "Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site ...".

I googled and finally found this fix.

It was only happening on pages that had youtube videos embedded. You need to strip out all of the code except the last set of <embed> tags, which would kill the <object> tags (which IE doesn't like), the <param> tags, and the first set of <embed> tags in the Youtube code.

It works now, it's just a pain in the ass that it stopped working in the first place.

Have fun!

Wildcard DNS with Hostgator

I've been trying for two days to figure out how to set up fake subdomains for a website.

After googling, I finally found out.

I asked Hostgator to set up Wildcard DNS. While waiting for their response (only an hour or so), I found this post ...
http://forums.hostgator.com/wildcard-subdomains-t36638.html.

When following the directions to add a subdomain called * and pointing to the root of your subdomain, I noticed that Hostgator had done exactly that with my main domain for the account.

Since my add-on domain wildcard DNS didn't work with just the main domain configured, I figured I try the same trick with the add-on domain itself. It works like a charm.

So I grab the fake subdomain portion of the URL and pass it to the index.php page in the .htaccess file like this ...

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.domain\.com?$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.com/index.php?name=%1 [L]

Then I can process at the page level. Or I can configure an internal redirect within the .htaccess file.

Once I clean it up, I'll be posting soon about how to grab the file names in a directory and sorting and displaying them. So all you have to do is add a file to the directory and it will automatically be displayed, no database required.

Bye for now.