Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Project Euler Problem #1

    Project Euler Problem #1

    Problem #1 at Project Euler is, besides being the problem with the most solutions provided to it, happens to also be a pretty good place to start working our way through the process.

  • Beta Test Starting Soon For Email Auto-Responder System

    Beta Test Starting Soon For Email Auto-Responder System

    Mailing lists … they’re one of the most popular, and easy, methods of using your website to make money.  I’ve used a few different list manager systems over the years, but they all seemed to miss (at least) one thing that I found useful or needed to make the list behave the way I wanted […]

  • The Update

    The Update

    Some of you may have noticed that there hasn’t been a new post in a while. That’s due to the fact that I’m 2500 (or so) miles from home and haven’t had a chance to really sit down and work up anything that’s worth posting. I have some programming stuff in the works, but that […]

  • How to Get mod_rewrite to Work With Forms

    How to Get mod_rewrite to Work With Forms

    I’ve been developing a new Web site that uses Apache‘s mod_rewrite to make “pretty” URLs instead of exposing both the script name and parameters to the end user.  For example, instead of seeing a URL like http://blahblahblah.com/somepage.php?page_id=details, the end user sees http://blahblahblah.com/details.

  • Quick and Easy Image Zoom Using JQuery

    Quick and Easy Image Zoom Using JQuery

    I maintain/manage some Websites that are developed by outsiders. Some of them are stuck (for one reason or another) using older tools and software packages … namely Microsoft FrontPage. In one of the websites, in particular, the previous method of showing a larger/zoomed-in version of an image was to open a new tab or browser […]

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