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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This year…

Wow, it seems this year has gone by so fast, which is not going to be good for me. As I posted earlier, I am unemployed and have been since April. The end of 2009 will not be good for me because that means beginning January 1st, 2010 the money situation around here will get even worse.

It will get worse because $600 of income will be gone until July. It’s already hard to pay bills and eat as it is, I can only imagine what it’s going to be like starting next month.
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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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