Well I’m sitting here at O’Hare airport playing with my new Samsung T509. I’ve just managed to configure the EDGE support from Windows and am currently using the internet connection directly from my phone. So hopefully as long as I have cellphone signal I’ll have 150KBs worth of wireless connection via bluetooth. I’ll work on getting this running in Ubuntu next and after that I’ll post up all my juicy findings on this new phone. Hang tight. Man I love not having to pay for the airports wireless.

I’m sure those Digg fans of you out there have recently stumbled across this link recently. This guy is spending his time and certainly his money. Producing some just stunning infrared photography. It looks like he is mostly doing nature scenes right now, but my god, they are gorgeous.

Well hopefully my efforts at being an insurgent from within is finally paying off. I have been part of very large University project to pick a new email client for the Universities email system. I’ve been pushing Thunderbird like there is no tomorrow and managed to convince some of our higher ups to buy in on the idea.

Today I witness the fruit of my efforts, Open Source on a large scale is not being realized at the U of M. I’m proud that our support team was on board the whole time as well. Now to get them to start converting over all the Browsers and OSes.

Considering I struggled for about a day to think of the easiest way to do this I feel completely stupid that I forgot how to randomize a set of mysql results in PHP. Especially after remembering the secret to it all. Simply adding ‘ORDER BY RAND()’ to your SQL statment.

The source of confusion is in the fact that once you have a set of rows from MySQL in PHP you cannot randomize them. The calls are retrieved individually through a ‘mysql_fetch_array’ or similar call and there isn’t anyway to randomize the object returned by ‘mysql_query’. So in an effort to prevent myself from forgetting this easy fix I’m documenting it here. I also hope it helps someone else.

Goddamn. I can’t believe I forgot something that simple … it’s like forgetting how to tie your shoes.