Garden Of Blog

I failed the Robot Test.

Created by OnePlusYou

via Pun Salad, who passed the test.

Looks like the silliness here is mostly over.

The judge took away their name, but we’ve still got their number. Support the WikiLeaks defense fund; set data free.

…. as I am.

Here are some great images echoing the sentiment.

If you’re stopping into our homepage at mindmined.com for the first time in awhile, you may notice things have changed a bit. Garden of Blog and CozmiKast are now part of the regular news stream.

We’re still adding to the Mind Mined archive proper, but now the mother ship is current with the latest text and audio feeds from our Web 2.0 endeavours: your editor’s personal blog, and the podcast we started back in October of 2005.

I hope you enjoy the new presentation of Mind Mined!

-Marcus

This one for beverages.

This blog is pitiful.

The big 30. Yay!

Hey Kirk… you probably don’t read this but…. let’s do this one. I’ll put it in our songbook.

It made me cry tonight. It’s so touching how George is singing to the unloved, encouraging them that ‘love comes to everyone’.

And I always thought those lines “something that’s never changing… something that’s never aging” were a pretty easy rhyme, nothing special, trite at worst. Another crappy pop song with a worn out theme. Not so, not so. George meant those. Think about it… “There in your heart…”

It also strikes me that the tune is recorded too slow on the album, as though something is on its way, but the wait is protracted. “It only takes time…”

Perl geeks only:

I didn’t know where to save this little tidbit just-in-case, so I chose here.

CGI::Untaint is great (especially with its cool subclasses) for untainting incoming CGI params, but what if you want to use it to untaint other variables that aren’t coming in as CGI params?

Do this:

	# untaint
        # stuff the variable into a CGI param
 	$cgiobject->param( -name=> 'remote_addr', -value=> $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} );
        # create an instance of a CGI::Untaint object
 	my $untaint = CGI::Untaint->new( $cgiobject->Vars );
        # perform the untaint, in this case requiring printable characters
	my $remote_addr = $untaint->extract(-as_printable => 'remote_addr');