http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:34:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seems I have more trouble with getting MySQL running with Apache and PHP5 than pretty much anything else I do. So to save myself -- and hopefully someone else -- much fruitless Googling and Apache restarting, here's what I found. If you have configured Apache and PHP5 on Windows XP ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/84/getting-mysql-to-work-with-php5-on-windows-xp/ From the Belfast Telegraph: Lewis "Scooter" Libby, once chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, has been jailed for 30 months for perjury and obstructing justice in the CIA leak case. The sentence is bound to generate demands from conservatives for George Bush to issue a politically controversial presidential pardon to ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/83/whats-wrong-with-this/ Note: This is one of the posts I made on my long-dormant Vox blog. I’m bringing everything over here in preparation for dumping Vox. I was reading some blog postings on the Google Desktop Gadgets API, and came across this gem of a comment: 11 boat anchor.... It seemed like a great idea when ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/77/unintentional-poetry/ Note: This is one of the posts I made on my long-dormant Vox blog. I'm bringing everything over here in preparation for dumping Vox. Bullet Hell Shmups: I like classic arcade games. Growing up in Orangeville, I wasn't often exposed to really great arcade games. We had one arcade in ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/76/be-attitude-for-gains/ I did a quick diagram of how to connect your iPod to a TV using a cheapie camcorder cable. Its scaled to fit nicely onto your iPod as a photo. I based it off of Erica Sadun's post at the Mac Dev Centre at O'Reilly. If you're ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/75/connecting-your-ipod-to-a-tv-the-cheap-way/ Through the accidental mangling of a URL, I discovered that my del.icio.us bookmarks are the first hit on Google if you search based on the username "awhite". I'm also #5 on "Andrew White", which I'm kinda proud of, seeing as there's a popular musician of the same name. http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/74/ive-got-google-juice/ Despite the ribbing I get from my PSP-owning coworkers, I love my NDS. I'm a particular fan of Mario Kart DS and Animal Crossings: Wild World, both of which feature custom decals. In Mario Kart, you can modify the hood icon of your cart; in Animal Crossings, you ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/73/nintendo-ds-icon-template/ Juice analytics has a great article that's making the rounds on in-cell graphing in Excel using simple formulas and the REPT function. Its very similar to the common HTML bargraphing mehod of stretching pixels using javascript to calculate their width. (Pop over there before reading further, since none ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/72/using-in-cell-spreadsheet-graphing-in-online-spreadsheets/ Odeo has added the ability to use your podcast queue as voice mail. To leave voice mail, all you need is Flash and a mic. Send me something below! http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/71/send-me-a-voice-message/ I got an email back from Starbucks about my video card experience. They asked me to phone them up, which was good. However I had to go a couple of menus deep, wait on hold, then talk to the CSR, then answer a customer service satisfaction survey of ... http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/70/starbucks-feels-badly/