I really don't post enough on my personal site as I should, when I do get a chance to post its on http://www.phpjack.com and of a technical nature so my first resolution is to be more active, not only online but IRL as well.

My second resolution is to relearn C. I say relearn because the last time I programmed something truly useful in C was back in my high school days (20 some years ago, god I am old) so I am extremely rusty.

I want the new IPhone that is coming out June 19th.. Why? Because it is a huge improvement over my current first generation IPhone and has a lot of new features I can use.

Why didn't I upgrade to "IPhone 3G", because the only thing it really provided to anyone was a mild improvement in browsing speed.. 3G Battery lifetime is less then Edge so the trade off for me wasn't worth it.

The new IPhone is faster, better camera, video recording and much more.. The one feature that I wanted all along is finally natively available.. Voice dialing.

Another recent ruckus that has been going around is about a battle between "Ad Block" and "Noscript" both extension for Firefox that have different main intents but can both do one thing really well.

Block ads, and you know what I do understand this need. Some sites have over the top bandwidth hogging ads that are just stupid! Other sites are nothing but ads and paginate there content to some extreme to ensure you see as many ads as possible!

People constantly ask "How long can I freeze X?" and the answer is pretty simple.. Forever!

Food kept frozen at 0 F or below will be "safe" to eat until the day the earth explodes or something.

The people behind uTorrent have decide to make the application udp enabled for the reason of bypassing various throttling methods used by ISP's.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=49813

In a period where more and more ISP's are testing and looking into caps, usage charges and other means to limit people who "overuse" there connection they choose the low road and give companies more reason to act.

car 1 going 60, car 2 going 100, If someone pulls out in front of these drives car 2 has less time to respond and therefore is driving to fast and should get a ticket and be responsible for any accident.

What never seems to get brought up in these cases is car 3.. The car that pulled out in front of the other 2 in the first place and caused them to have to hit the brakes!

Why do cops sit on the side of the road with a speed detector when instead they should be focusing on the cause of accidents and traffic congestion, the "idiot drive".

This blog has pretty much become a place for my personal posts and all new coding related content can be found at http://www.phpjack.com.

There you will find a few new posts related to Drupal, XDebug and benchmarking that I hope you find interesting.

This will be my third Zendcon and I can't wait to go, Always a lot of interesting talks and people.

I have been looking for a decent shared folder system for a while, I even paid for a .mac subscription just for the idrive and for personal stuff it works great but for sharing it pretty much sucks and basically just uses a webdav system which can be slow and problematic.

What was I looking for in such a system?

1. The ability to sync folders across multiple systems
2. The ability to access these folders on and OFFLINE ( I will go into why that is so important later)
3. The ability to share folders with multiple people

So if you haven't figured it out yet a good burger needs a certain amount of fat otherwise it tends to not stick together, be drive and just not turn out right. A lot of people suggest at least 15-20% fat for a good burger.

If your going to have fat in your burger why not make sure the fat your using provides and extra kick of flavor.

2 pounds extremely lean ground beef ( 3-5% )
1 pound jimmy dean hot sausage
2 teaspoon McCormick's salt free steak seasoning
4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce