Gordaen's Blog

Minimum wage skyrockets… assuming the rocket is setup by one of the NASA scientists who doesn’t know inches from centimeters and he set the rocket on the guide upsidedown… Minimum wage was set at $5.15 in 1997. Now, nine years later, it is still $5.15 an hour. Fortunately some states realize this is ridiculous and [...]

After three years, my credit card was hitting its expiration date. I received the new card in the mail, but kept putting off activating it. A lot of companies force you to talk to a person at some point so they can convince you of how great their *insert crappy service here* is. The slightly [...]

In what appears to have become a very regular occurrence, another government organization has made a mistake that potentially gave out information about 21,000 of their users, including names, social security numbers, and all the other fun stuff necessary to steal one’s identity. Direct Loan Servicing was hit this time, but it wasn’t a matter [...]

One of the common things that comes up in web design forums is ugly URLs. For instance index.php?section=paintings&id=25 is an example of a GET query string (from the question mark and on). The variable “section” is set to “paintings” and the variable “id” is set to “25.” This is great for beginners of PHP, but [...]

For those who don’t know, I am often fascinated by statistics. It’s interesting the things you can prove, and the things people think they prove by misinterpretting statistics. Here’s an example: For young males, driver fatalities rose by 1 percent [from 1994 to 2004], compared with a 15-percent increase for young females