Why I’m Never Going to Australia

The image below is the proverbial nail in the coffin as far as a trip to Australia for me. That place is freakin crazy! Everything is poisonous and everything is trying to eat something else. Case in point… The photo below is a freakin spider eating a freakin snake while …

Stop SOPA/PIPA (PROTECT-IP)

Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. YES – These bills WILL affect how …

Automatically Update Your Copyright Notice Date

Every year some lonely web folks are wasting time updating the copyright dates on their various websites footers. Since we have jumped head first into 2012 lets start the year off right. The following will show you how to use PHP to automatically update your notice. Display Current Year [php] …

Happy 15th Birthday to Toby

Happy Birthday to my “Old Man” Toby! I can’t believe my baby is fifteen. Where has the time gone… We will be celebrating Toby’s special day with his annual Christmas lights ride and McDonald’s hamburger. I hope and pray we have many many more.

Sync Snow Leopard iCal Events with iCloud

iCloud has some exciting new features that will inevitably tempt you into upgrading. Perhaps you jumped out there and upgraded to iCloud without understanding what you were about to loose from Mobile Me. If you have upgraded to iCloud but still have a Snow Leopard system around you can still …

Happy Howl-O-Ween

Toby and Buddy would like to wish everyone a happy and safe 2011 Howl-O-Ween! More pictures available in our photo gallery.

Luray Caverns

My wife and I recently celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. We spent the day in Luray Virginia exploring the beautiful scenery and sights. The hit of the day was by far the amazing Luray Caverns. I’ve put together a photo gallery of the caverns. Trust me when I say the …

Business Days To/Fro with PHP

The below example will help you with finding or setting a date to and/or fro using business days only. I needed this for a project I was working on and thought I would share. [php] <?php function dateFromBusinessDays($days, $dateTime=null) { $dateTime = is_null($dateTime) ? time() : $dateTime; $_day = 0; …

Steve Jobs 1955  2011

Rest in Peace Steve Jobs… ;’-( There will NEVER be another as passionate as you. No one will ever fill your shoes. Thank you for creating Apple and bringing it back to the masses. Thank you for fighting as long as you did. Rest well my Apple brother, safe passage. …

Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date?

Is Your Dropbox Software Up to Date? Many people use Dropbox to share and synchronize files, but few people know when updates to the program are available. The application itself has no updater, and no notification when new versions are released. So, in order to find out if you need …

Sully’s Top 5 OS X 10.7 Lion Tweaks

Disable “Natural Scrolling” – Wow, this might be a good idea on the iPhone or iPad but seriously you expect me to use this on my 27″ iMac. Let’s turn this setting off first! 1) Open System Preferences and select the “Mouse or Trackpad” icon under the Hardware section 2) …

Dear Congress

Dear Congress, Last year I mismanaged my funds and this year my family and I cannot decide on a budget. Until we have come to a unified decision that fits all our needs and interests, we will have to shut down our checkbook and will no longer be able to …

How to make a bootable Lion install Disc

Unlike previous versions of Mac OS X, Lion (OS X 10.7) doesn’t ship on a bootable disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t require a bootable installation disc. Indeed, this lack of physical media is perhaps the biggest complaint about …

Welcome/Notice to Visiting Non-Pet Owners

To non-pet owners who visit our homes. Don’t complain about our pets. 1.  They live here, you don’t. 2.  If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That’s why they call it ‘Fur’-niture. 3. Chances are, I love my pets more then I like you. …

The Simple Truth on Financial Legislation

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You …