Archive for September, 2006
Radio commercial: Emirates Airlines
I was listening to the radio this morning when I heard the commercial for Emirates Airlines. They say that their cabin crew speaks a least 5 languages. Is that collectively or individually? If that was individually, imagine their HR requirements!
Segway Recalls 23,500 Scooters
I didn’t know they sold that many. In […]
I tried installing phpMyAdmin 2.8.2.4 on my XP home workstation. I had previously installed PHP, MySQL and Apache 1.3 — they were all in working order. After extacting the archive to my root folder, I opened up a new browser window and typed in localhost/phpMyAdmin. Tada! “Cannot load mysql extension. Please check PHP Configuration” I’ve […]
On my second post now, but I still haven’t figured out how this program works. I call blogs as programs since they really are just that — web-based applications that simplify publishing to the web. They help non-technical people put things up on the web. The web used to be the domain of the techies, […]



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