Robert J Turner

Okay, so it aint a word, but Im getting into the workings of PHP, I want to loose the WYSYWYG Dreamweaver and go for learning to code in PHP.

Wish me luck….

Send To Toys 2.3

Publisher’s Description:

Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. ‘Add to Send To menu’ and ‘Remove from Send To menu’ allow you to personalize the Send To system menu for drives, folders, and programs. Send To ‘Clipboard (as name)’ copies the name of the file or files to the clipboard. Send To ‘Command Prompt’ opens a DOS console window, setting the current directory to the selected folder. Send To ‘Favorites’ adds a shortcut to your Favorites list. Send To ‘Folder…’ sends a file or files to another folder, you will be shown a dialog box that lets you choose where the files should be copied. Send To ‘Run…’ sends a file or files to the Run command dialog.

Latest Changes:

* Added Send To Toys Control Panel Applet for managing the Send To menu content, and to configure Send To Toys settings

* Added Send To ‘Recycle Bin’ which also performs document shredding when holding down the CTRL key

* Send To ‘Folder…’: Added a Default folder setting and also added an option to open the destination folder at completion

* Send To ‘Clipboard (as name)’: Improved wrap option and added three options to further control the format (escape sequences for unsafe characters and spaces, URL, and UNC)”

EvilLyrics 0.1.8 RC2 beta

Publisher’s Description:

EvilLyrics is a free utility that automatically searches for lyrics as your song is played in your media player. It searches over 5,000,000 lyrics. Currently supports Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, RealPlayer, Foobar, Jetaudio, QCD, MusicMatch, MediaMonkey and Yahoo! Music Engine. It contains no spyware or adware and is completely free.

Latest Changes:

* Feature: Limited JetAudio support

* Change: Removed edit/view modes; edit is now default mode (find-as-you-type now works only when lyrics are locked)

* Feature: Bring to front with player

* Change: improved multiple filter handling

* Change: improved filter submission

* Feature: auto logging to myLyrics via ‘go to myLyrics button

* Feature: redirect keywords (and more settings configurable via settings.txt)

Ive decided to start a Flickr site of photo’s from around Vancouver Island - The lesser known sights.

Im becoming quite the fan of flickr.com and what you can do with thier technology.

Flickr API wrapper for Flash

This page is where you will find the most up to date version of my (desperately in need of a more catchy name) “Flickr API wrapper for Flash”. The main aim behind this project is to abstract away from the intricacies of the Flickr API and make it easy to develop applications in Flash which interface with flickr.com.

The project is currently in alpha state. Basically, I’ve started work on it (and what an undertaking it has become!) but haven’t yet implemented the whole API or locked down any of the classes or methods… Anything could change!

That said, I am releasing the code and documentation in the hope of getting feedback from the community about things that make sense / don’t make sense and functionality that you might like to see. Please leave feedback in the comments below or via email or on the flickr api mailing list.”

LiveScience.com

Quick lessons in science without people throwing paper aeroplanes, spitting chewed paper wads or hitting you over the head with a ruler. No smelly teachers either!!

Bugs Are Considered a Delicacy in Mexico

By Mark Stevenson

Associated Press Writer

posted: 16 June, 2005

3:40 p.m. ET

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Like many people in his town in the southern Mexico highlands, Gerardo Carrillo looks forward to harvest time in August. That’s when he can pick greenish caterpillars off the trees and boil them with a little lime.

“They’re good,” says the 53-year-old gardener. “They taste a little like grasshoppers.”

As Mexico’s centuries-old tradition of eating bugs becomes more lucrative _ maguey worms and ant eggs are showing up as exotic fare at expensive restaurants _ researchers are trying to convince poor villages to cash in on these pests as a means of income.

With a protein content as much as twice that of beef, bugs could also become a welcome diet supplement among the estimated 20 million extremely poor Mexicans who live on incomes of $1 per day or less.

In many towns, especially in southern Mexico, bugs are a regular part of the diet. In Carrillo’s home of Zapotitlan de Salinas, 130 miles southeast of Mexico City, residents fry the green caterpillars called “cuchama.” They sell some, though they’re available only a couple of months a year and don’t provide much income.

While the spicy, leggy bodies of locusts; the crusty, french-fried caterpillars; or bursting, buttery ant eggs may be an acquired taste, insect cuisine is winning converts in a variety of ways.

Consider locusts, covered in chocolate or sweet sauce, and worms, in Jell-O or clear, hard candy. Invented by biologist Juan Garcia Oviedo, they have been a big hit in test groups over the last decade.

“The kids love them,” Garcia Oviedo said of the clear candy with the bug inside. “They tend to eat the candy to get at the bug to see if it’s real. Once they find out it’s real, they keep on eating anyway.”

Seventeen-year-old student Ariel Elurdoy, waiting for a 65-cent taco at a Mexico City street stand, said he would happily try bug food. He, like many Mexicans, has eaten grasshoppers and would be willing to try the rest of the insect and worm kingdom.

“People should be open to trying these things,” Elurdoy said. “They’re good.”

Long a food source in Oaxaca, the bug movement is spreading. Farmers on the outskirts of Mexico City were spending large amounts of money on pesticides to kill grasshoppers, Garcia Oviedo said, until they found they could get more money for the edible bugs than for their crops.

“Now, these farmers are planting a cheap kind of corn, just to serve as a trap to catch grasshoppers,” he noted. “They’ve seen that it’s better to have a crop with pests.”

While the ideas have made it to market studies and consumer testing, they still require seed money. Garcia says he has interest from foreign investors, but has been hamstrung by Mexican food-safety standards that treat insect content as contamination _ rather than a potential main ingredient.

Officials at Mexico’s Agriculture Department say insect consumption falls outside regulations because it’s a traditional, noncommercial food product.

Researchers note that in Aztec times, pest control was accomplished largely by eating bugs rather than spraying them.

“This could be a cheap food source, while allowing the farmers to take care of their land and avoid biotech crops and pesticides” aimed at eradicating bugs, says business administration professor Idolina Velazquez.

One of her students has already recruited farmers in Tlaxcala state, just east of Mexico City, to raise popular maguey worms year-round. This wrinkly, red-and-white worm _ really a caterpillar _ is the kind sometimes found in a bottle of mescal.

Increased availability would improve the market for the sought-after worms _ fried and sold with butter and garlic for as much as $40 a dozen at some upscale Mexican restaurants, about 15 times the price paid to those who gather them.

And in some villages in southern Mexico, bug “contamination” is hardly accidental: A few ground-up insects are added to hot chile salsa in villages as a nutritional boost.

Dr. Hector Bourges of Mexico’s National Nutrition Institute said eating insects was a “sort of return to the distant past” _ our primate ancestors probably ate them. But he doubts bugs alone could make a big difference in diets of malnourished people.

Even so, Garcia Oviedo hopes to produce more modern, “mixed-bug” products, like grinding up grasshoppers into hot dogs, or enriching tortillas with high-protein bug larvae powder.

“It’s just like eating a regular hot dog,” he says, “but with five or six times the nutritional value.”

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Im just saddened that Tim Henman didnt make it through the 3rd round of Wimbledon after a valiant struggle.

Tim if you read this, I think the dog wants “New Balls Please!”