Chris

- I usually listen to my modern rock music Pandora station, which has a lot of stuff from the 90s on up.
- I sometimes delve into Otep and Kittie and suchlike, all shrieky rock with melodicness involved.
- Often, if I'm too busy or the phones are too frequent, I listen to techno.
- Yesterday I was on a Deltron 3030 kick.
- Today has all been Dr. Hook, Grand Funk Railroad, BS&T, 3 Dog Night, and so forth.

Coworker: I am constantly surprised by your musical taste.
Xtina: Are you dissin' on Blood Sweat & Tears?  There's a law against that.

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(a) I'm considering, vaguely, seeing a career counselor.  Partly for the novelty, it's true.

(b) "Counsel" is giving advice, and "council" is a legal body.  I plan to associate "counsel" with "advise", so that I can ever &%($ remember the difference.

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I am ISO a PHP session/accounts tutorial or open-source thing.  I need these things:

* login/logout, dur
* session timeout
* account levels
* a full-name field
* some way of including login checking on each page I include things on
* not fifteen different files just to do this

Not much else.

I am also looking on my own, and have found a couple of things, but a number of them are insufficient, or wretched, or both.  For example, this script is fairly straight-forward and simple, but lacks the easy ability to incorporate accounts into it.

( The whys. )

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Dear god.  I hate Mondays because it reminds me that everyone talks, all the time, with no apology and no signs of ceasing.

Also, to everyone who calls in with a purchasing or related credit or debit card issue:

HAVE YOUR GODDAMN CARD OUT.

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Gah.  I need to find information on the laws in the US, and in Oregon, for how businesses must store credit card data in their databases -- encryption, length of time, whatever the hell.

I'm in the process of Googling this now, but if someone happens to know off the top of their head where some good info is, that'd be awesome.

Unrelated project: syncing Firefox's custom dictionary between computers.

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The problem with writing a testing plan for this accurséd program is that there are approximately one million different ways for it to go.

( Backstory. )

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I have just now finished with invoice emails (not calls) from last week, leaving only ones from this week as well as any invoice calls.

GNWAH

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I have a daft question, because I don't use OpenOffice but I'm using it now, and I don't have the time to track this down and verify it.  (I'm in the zone.)

Is there a way of making notes around text, much like one can add comments to cells in Excel?  Ideally, can I also find these notes easily later, somehow?

I'm writing up my presentation for work, and I have some things I want to note for testing before I go presenting it.

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I'm re-re-re-re-rewatching Groundhog Day, and am reworking everything as to how one would set up some massive prank or wacky intervention or stuff.  The truck and homeless man bits threw me, but I can pull it off, no sweat.

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Awright.  Tomorrow, I will try to create triggers on this SQL Server 2008 db to do something when rows are updated.  (Email me, run a batch file, something.)  Right now, I will bask in my awesomeness, then go home.

Home, to see if I can manage it such that a MediaWiki page can acquire information from a server, elsewhere.  Or if not, to see if I can add a different trigger that sends out information to the Linux server for pickup, or at least goddamn tells me about this new info.

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