How not to lift a car

I guess they should have put the e-brake on first.

"Anonymous" launches all out attack against Scientology... Started 6:00 PM EST Tonight.

From Digg:

"This evening, Splongcat of project chanology revealed IP adresses, which were hacked through prolexic Anti-DDoS services. Appareantly PROLEXIC security is no match for Anonymous hackers, who claim that the company is "amateuristic and unable of basic networking at best." Splongcat comments: We did it for lulz"

Some background on the whole affair here.

UPDATE: Looks like an NBC affiliate has picked up on the story here.

"I guess I should have seen that one coming....."

Wow, this has to be the funniest thing I have seen in a while, poor guy...

Gabe and Max's Internet Thing

Bert and Ernie Go Brutal on the Drums

Killing smart quote wierdness in PHP

Function to kill some weirdness caused by copying text from Microsoft Word to a textarea using raw UTF8 char codes.

The original function was posted here.

function convert_raw_utf8_smart_quotes($string)
{
  $search = array(chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0x98),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0x99),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0x9c),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0x9d),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0x93),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0x94),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x80) . chr(0xa6),
                  chr(0xe2) . chr(0x84) . chr(0xa2),
                  chr(0xc2) . chr(0xa9),
                  chr(0xc2) . chr(0xae),
                  chr(0xc2) . chr(0xa7));
 
  $replace = array('‘',
                  '’',
                  '“',
                  '”',
                  '–',
                  '—',
                  '...',
                  '™',
                  '©',
                  '®',
                  '§');
                   
  return str_replace($search, $replace, $string);
}

First Post

Ok, so I am way overdue on setting this up, so here it is in all its un-glory.