Archive for December, 2009

Christmas 2009

Well Christmas has come and gone, and while this year I was not able to buy my family gifts because of my financial situation, it was still a good Christmas overall. :)
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Pray for Brody

Today I’d like to write about a very young boy named Brody. I came to know of him from twitter, in a retweet by @meganmchapman.

In September of this year, Brody had crawled out of a doggie door at his baby sitters. He subsequently fell into a swimming pool, and went into coma. He is at home now, and still going through treatment, and appears to be progressing daily.
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Skate 4 Cancer – DreamLoveCure

I came across Skate4Cancer a few weeks ago when I saw them trending on Twitter. Right now, every follow Skate4Cancer gets on Twitter, $0.25 will be donated to the cause, of curing cancer.
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[PHP] – Check if a URL is valid/exists

Hello folks.

The following is a PHP function that will check a given URL to see if it’s valid, and check to see if it is responding (ie: returning Status: 200 OK).
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World AIDS Day 2009

Today, December 1st, is World Aids Day. And in honor of today, and join(red), my blog theme will be red for the entire day.
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