Call me what you will. But, here is one more reason I don’t want to go to China any time soon. Penis platter anyone? I will take a trip to Tuscany anytime though.
[tags]China, Penis Platter, Food[/tags]

If you are looking for a way to backup all of your MySQL tables daily and have them emailed to you, I found an awesome MySQL backup script that takes about 1 minute to configure and works perfectly right out of the box. Of course, you may have trouble emailing all of the files to [...]

Pesky myspace.com users remote linking to images on your site in their sigs? Using .htaccess seems to be the default method most people use to try and block these requests. But, this may not be the most effective method anymore as browsers like Firefox may circumvent this. Sooo, how do you block remote image linking [...]

I guess the question is, who doesn’t like string bikinis? No matter, a friend of mine in Malibu needs a little help with her website. I am sure you won’t mind linking to her site or even visiting it for that matter. She runs the best bikini shop in Malibu (update: she no longer has [...]

Let’s just say that the past 3 or 4 days have been a big learning experience for me.  This is not how I wanted to learn how to administrate linux better, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers. One of the things that has been making me insane lately is how slowly this blog has [...]

Ok, I am no linux admin. A box I have sitting here next to me, that I am running Debian Linux on, was compromised by some friend in China.  After a few emails and conversations with Lawrence at Speakeasy, I installed Portsentry and thought I had the problem under control. Well, I didn’t. Lawrence let [...]

I was going to put something like this together for myself and then dump some adsense into it, but I have too much on my plate right now. Plus, I am realizing that I need to do some serious hacking on this Wordpress install to speed things up around here. Anyway, if you want [...]

In an effort to speed up this POS, I have just finished moving the www.golod.com blog over to a different server.  If you are reading this, then you have made it over to the new site. Yippeeee.  I am curious if anyone tried to visit and got some kind of Wordpress DB error message before [...]

Well, I am not much of a hacker or for the super l33ty folks, h4×0r. But, I was thinking about hitting up the upcoming Yahoo! Hack Day which is coming up at the end of the month. I am just starting to get into putting some decent little applications together using the Yahoo [...]