Monthly Archives: February 2003

Mark points to the new release of Ad Aware. If you have to use Windows when browsing the net use this software to clean out your system!

Going the whole hog: benchmarking MDB

Well since I just benchmarked dbx, I decided to go the whole hog and benchmark MDB also. This gives us a good idea of the performance of all the modern database abstraction classes available for PHP.

PHPLib has a 40% overhead over using the MySQL api.

The best ”Simpsons” episodes.

iLoggers : the definitive guide to personal irish websites and weblogs

Clamporama – via Gerry Ryan’s show on 2FM.

Clamp-o-Rama is a fun flash based game. The objective is simple… don’t get clamped. There are six levels with new characters appearing throughout the game. Get to the final level to take on ‘Brutus’.

MySQL and PostgreSQL Compared – “both have their uses.”

boards.ie/vbulletin – best o.s. for gaming?

Kansas Department of Revenue – Personal Tax Types – Drug Tax Stamp

The fact that dealing marijuana and controlled substances is illegal does not exempt it from taxation. Therefore drug dealers are required by law to purchase drug tax stamps.

BBC NEWS | Health | Shaving habits linked to stroke risk – a guy on the radio yesterday basically said that increased levels of testoserone may lead to early death in men, but this study would suggest the opposite. (via bottomquark)

Jeremy’s MySQL Stuff – Jeremy linked to it today, must take a look later.