http://myleshenderson.com it is myles henderson Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:36:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was 436 days ago that I stopped smoking cigarettes. I picked the day, December 22, 2006, two weeks in advance and quit cold turkey. Now I smoke one cigar per day, sometimes two if it’s a good day. I was a compulsive cigarette smoker. I smoked when I woke up ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2008/03/02/cigars-i-have-known-and-loved-15-months-in/ I like the plpgsql procedural language for PostgreSQL more than it is appropriate to like a procedural language. I find the reward:effort ratio to be quite high. Since one can do so many cool things with it, why waste time writing boring insert functions for tables? Here's my plpgsql ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/11/16/postgresql-insert-function-generator/ I have hacked together some PHP5 code to get a thumbnail of a random picture from Picasa Web Albums for a given userid. The code can be much better. Each time the page is requested two curl calls are made, one to fetch XML for the albums and one to ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/11/03/random-picture-from-picasa/ It takes an increasingly long amount of time to get out of the house. Seven years ago we could shower, dress, eat and be out of the door in half an hour but now it takes that long for this family of four just to have breakfast. The trees here ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/11/03/on-the-road-to-blowing-rock-nc/ It is time to buy vegetables for the week and having spent six months in Charlotte without taking the time to make the drive, we decided to check out the Charlotte Farmers Market. The Charlotte Farmers Market is one of five farmers markets owned ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/09/27/charlotte-farmers-market/ I give you the elvis: Take one piece of sliced bread Apply peanut butter Cover with sliced banana Cover with crispy bacon Drizzle honey Top with one piece of sliced bread It has been said that the King himself invented this sandwich after regaining his appetite following a two-week benzedrine binge. http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/08/31/the-elvis/ xkcd.com makes me laugh http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/08/27/sudo/ It was a dragon fly that caught my eye and brought me to the area; I was following him around trying to get a picture when I found the spiders. The dragon fly got away, and luckily the spiders aren't as tricky to photograph. I found three black-and-yellow argiopes. ... http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/08/26/argiope-aurantia/ I don't get too close, but i hear that these bees won't sting you. http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/08/01/bee/ #asp on undernet irc is a place in which you should hope that you never find yourself. However if you do, this guide to #asp memes, will come in handy. http://myleshenderson.com/index.php/2007/06/23/asp-memes/