Archive for October, 2007

Found a great little snippet of code to use for converting from American to Euro date format and back.

$date=’12/31/2006’;
print ereg_replace(”([0-9] )/([0-9] )/([0-9] )”,”\\2/\\1/\\3″,$date);
Thanks to last-child.com for the Snippet.
And from the comments below an even shorter snippet:
echo date( ‘m-d-Y’, strtotime( $date) );
Thanks Justin!

A new Zune

Well looks like Microsoft is taking another swing at an mp3 player. Hopefully it will do much better. I do like the fact that the first gen Zunes are getting all of the features of the new zunes. Score one for Microsoft.
 
From Engadget:
Hard drive Zunes

It’s called the Zune 80 and, shockingly enough, it has 80GB [...]

National Broadband Strategy

When you think about the world today, do you see most shopping and services are done in brick and mortar shops. It has always been done this way, but things are changing. Today we have global marketplaces with global reach via the internet, but why then is the US slipping in the world on broadband [...]