I’m a huge fan of Open Source. If you don’t believe me, check out my meetup group, Richmond’s Open Source Meetup Group.

This little article lists 40 of the Free Open Source Resources out there to help you save some money. With a tough economy like the one we’re facing today, it’s good to be able to save any penny you can. By the way, if you scroll down far enough, you’ll see that there’s a free eBook in there about Linux.

I’m reading this book The POWER of Body Language and in it there is a little excerpt on why we humans might like porn so much. I think the book tells it best, so here it is:

The action of mirror neurons, brain cells that allow us to experience empathy, may help to explain the addictive nature of pornography. When a person watches other people having sex, even on a television (or computer) screen, a part of his brain actually feels like he’s getting some action, too. (And who can blame a guy for liking that?)

Well, that explains it, don’t you think?

Should you want to check out the book, you can own it today by going to amazon and investing in it. I’m a nice guy, so I’m going to provide you a link: The POWER of Body Language.

I still see on a lot of sites the copyright date being outdated. Shoot, it was even outdated on mine. How embarrassing. Easy fix though. Something I do at work all the time, but since I’m not getting paid for this site, it wasn’t done.

Now, let’s forget the past and move onto the future.

The solution (in PHP):

OR, for those that need more lines (I do too. I like to be able to READ my code):

[cc lang="php"]
function copyright_year($year = ’2009′, $sep = ‘-’) {

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So I just finished reading a Web 2.0 book on security. I didn’t really like the book but it did have some things in there that were good, and that’s what this post is about. But don’t buy the book and I’m not going to name the book. You might be wondering why I hated the book (and yet I’m blogging about something good that came from the book), well, the reason I hated the book was because when it mentioned browsers that were unsecure, it mentioned Firefox and Opera. Now, I don’t know much about Opera, so I could care less that Opera was mentioned. But what really drove me nuts was that it mentioned Firefox. It’s like the book hasn’t heard of IE6, the shittiest of shit browsers still available on the market.

But anyway, one plug for Firefox 3.0 – it renders JavaScript faster than the other browsers. I think the only browser that may or may not be faster, is Chrome from Google. Which shouldn’t be a surprise because someday Google is going to own the air we breathe.

I digress. The whole point of this post was to list some security sites for the people out there that want to keep up2date on things. So here’s the list, in no particular order:
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