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This is a Liopleurodon Charlie (Sparta Remix)

Ryan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:26:08 +0000

Burnout Paradise: Cagney (Classical) Soundtrack

Ryan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:09:09 +0000

Ok, Dave’s been over in my house since Monday and so has his PS3. Anyway, the Cagney update for Burnout Paradise came out on Wednesday and it adds classical music to the in-game soundtrack and I went looking for the list of music and couldn’t find one so he brought up the list in the game and I took it down and here it is;

Bach - Air on the G String
Bach - Minuet
Ave Maria
Léo Delibes - Flower Duet from Lachme
Mozart - EinekleineNachtmusik
Tchaikovsky - Dance Of The Mirlitons
Camille Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals (Aquarium)
Mozart - Horn Concerto #4
Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)
Verdi - Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco)
Dvorák - Symphony #9
Debussy - Clair de Lune
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement
Mozart - Piano Concerto #21
Handel - Water Music Suite No. 1 (Air)
Camille Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals (Swan)
Georges Bizet - Carmen (Habanera)
Mozart - 3rd Horn Concerto 3rd Movement
Verdi - Triumphal March (Aida)
Handel - Water Music Suite #2 in D major
Brahms - Hungarian Dance #5
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Spring 1st Movement)

I <3 my crazy gamer boyfriend.

Facebook Anthem

Ryan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:11:58 +0000

I’ve never used FaceBook, but I know I hate it. Here’s a song to tell me I’m right.
компютри втора употреба

BOMed

Ryan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:09:02 +0000

Cheryl, if you’re reading this you’ll remember my problem.

BOMs (Byte Order Marks) are placed by Microsoft Expression Web at the top of utf-8 html pages, but also php pages.

This is a big problem as they are visible in Firefox if you use php’s include() function and if you have some code that must be at the very top of a page they will be there first. You can’t even see them in the likes of notepad!

But now Expression Web 2’s Beta is out and you can choose to include them or not;

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=web2beta

Enjoy all the wonder of the splend-diferius software without the hassle of pursuing BOMs.

SO HAPPY!!!

I’ve just found a great new word!

Ryan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:23:41 +0000

Rather than me saying I’m bi and then having to gauge if the person is intelligent enough to handle the fact that I say I’m because everyone knows what that means but in reality I’m attracted to people regardless of gender, I now can just use Pansexual.

It’s brilliant. It sums up everything.

Apparently, omnisexual is also used, and anyone who watches Dr. Who or Torchwood knows that Captain Jack is described in the same way, so you know what that means, I’m future-proof. *nerd*

Anyway, it’s a brilliant little word I wanted to share with you all. Yeh, LGBTP!

Homosexuality isn’t evil but…

Ryan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:47:37 +0000

…straight crushes are.

It’s not fair, why am I so screwed-up (yes I’m back to using blogging to whine about my life). Ok so for the longest time I thought I was straight, no surprising as I found members of the opposite gender sexually attractive and have had many a crush (typically on female friends [this point will be important later]) but of course that day came when I felt a certain something for someone of the same gender (also a friend, see where I’m going with this).

I know what you’re thinking, there’s an oblivious answer to this, hang myself, I mean, get gay friends. But seeing as my straight female friends won’t touch me and I don’t know any gay guys with the qualities that attract me to guys in the first place (I find men attractive because they’re manly [and women for their feminine qualities]).

So collectively all this messed-up-ness results in me having rather big crushes on straight male friends. Is there a way of preventing this?

Also add to all this that at least when I was young I had really bad taste in friends, not that I had much selection, so at least I dodged a few bullets, but now through a well developed personality filtration system with strict rules I now have great friends (commence patting yourself on the back all you who have survived this far).

*sigh*

Ryan’s PHP BookLibrary V1.1

Ryan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:19:19 +0000

Bit of a quick update, just some minor code fixes.

No feature changes.

(Keep up-to-date and get more info here http://blog.ryangannon.com/category/php-personal-book-library-database/)

Download it here: http://ryangannon.com/downloads/PHP_Library.rar

Ryan’s PHP BookLibrary V1.0

Ryan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:07:49 +0000

Formally “PHP Personal Book-Library Database”. This is the first full version.

(Keep up-to-date and get more info here http://blog.ryangannon.com/category/php-personal-book-library-database/)

This version:

Installs
Adds books
simply input the isbn to retrive the books info
Deletes books
Edits books
Searches
and orders the search results (e.g. by ISBN, Author, etc.)
User Accounts
you have to be an admin to edit/add books
users can request books
A request and “on-loan” management system
delete requests or transfer them to on-loan
delete on-loan books when they’re returned
The books have profiles
Better styling (no tables)
and a full default stylesheet

Screenshot:

Manage requested and on-loan books

Add books by just the ISBN

Book profile and availability

Hopefully I’ll come up with a good way to deal with multiple copies of the same book.
At the moment the best idea is to change the ISBN as you add it.

Download it here: http://ryangannon.com/downloads/PHP_Library.rar

PHP Personal Book-Library Database V0.8

Ryan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:04:22 +0000

I had hoped to be closer to finished at this stage, thought most of the work now is superficial now there’s still a few bits to add on and lose-ends to tie-up.

(Keep up-to-date and get more info here http://blog.ryangannon.com/category/php-personal-book-library-database/)

This version:

Installs
Adds books
Deletes books
Searches
and orders the search results (e.g. by ISBN, Author, etc.)
User Accounts
you have to be an admin to edit/add books
users can request books
The books have profiles
Better styling (no tables)Download it here: http://ryangannon.com/downloads/PHP_Library.rar

PHP Personal Book-Library Database V0.6

Ryan — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:44:45 +0000

Unfortunately on Wednesday I had to go to hospital and Thursday I made Mom a new site (heartinhand.ryangannon.com) but yesterday I started back to work on this project and I’ve gotten a lot closer to finished thanks to a couple of tutorials I found. (Keep up-to-date and get more info here http://blog.ryangannon.com/category/php-personal-book-library-database/)

This version:

Installs
Adds books
Deletes books
Searches
and orders the search results (e.g. by ISBN, Author, etc.)
User Accounts
you have to be an admin to edit/add books

I hope to have a full version and some screenshots tomorrow. Read “Install and Credits.txt” for full installation info.

Download it here: http://ryangannon.com/downloads/PHP_Library.rar

The user system is based on the tutorials by jpmaster77 on evolt.org “PHP Login Script with Remember Me Feature” (http://evolt.org/php_login_script_with_remember_me_feature) and “PHP Login System with Admin Features” (http://www.evolt.org/PHP-Login-System-with-Admin-Features).