The Stiletto 100, the newest Serius satellite radio reciever by Serius is what I recently got as a present,

The pro’s of the Stiletto are,

1. It’s small, and easy to carry
2. It stores alot of songs, and you can record songs from the satellite radio
3. Using the satellite headphones your able to hear satellite radio
4. It has two batteries the big one which is the 4 hour, and the little one which is 2 hours
5. Its Wi-fi enabled

The con’s of the Stiletto are,

1. In order to recieve the satellite part outside, you must be wearing the headphones which hurt my ears
2. When walking around outside the signal gets messed up and it has to rebuffer

Ask for my review of the Stiletto, it’s a slick small and easy to carry device that fits in my back pocket. While i’m walking I enjoy the channels Buzzsaw which is a rock and roll channel, and Hair Nation, and of course the always elegant Howard Stern. On sunday nights I enjoy walking and listening to the Bears on the Stiletto. I’ve transfered Mp3’s to my Stiletto, and have been listening to them,

I’ve also recorded music while listening to it on the Stiletto. I found one problem though if your listening to a great song on the Stiletto and you want to record it, you can but if you hit a bad signal area the song wont record that part which really was sad for me to find out. While listening to the Stiletto outside my home, I have to wear these headphones to get the reception for the channels, the headphones hurt my ears.

When I first got it I realized it came with two batteries, both of mine are currently charged, the small battery which is the two hour one takes two hours to charge. The four hour one takes four hours to charge, the greatest thing about the Stiletto though in my opinion is the WiFi, I probably use this the most of anything else. Everyday I bring the Stiletto to school and listen to it before and after school, the WiFi enables me to listen to it in my room, in fact im listening to it right now. Overall the Stiletto gets a straight A- from me, and I will post new developments as they occur.

in this case I just sat down at my computer and wrote, this story has no name yet.. this is first chapter called
Brothers sudden disappearance.
Whispering in my ear, I heard the voice as I sat their asleep. I could barely hear the voice of my brother telling me to wake up and get dressed, I had not slept good in the past week or so and was dreadfully tired. I stumbled out of bed to notice the time was 5:00 am, which was unusual for me as I went to school at 9:00 am. Me and my brother lived together in a apartment building on Chaplin Street, my name is Sarah Mcalister, and my brothers name is Brian Mcalister. I got dressed and got into his car with no idea of where we were going, he turned on rock and roll like he usually did in the morning. We drove quite fast, and I asked him where we were going. He muttered something, and I could barely understand what he said but i did catch the words “to pull a job”. We pulled up to a building and he got out of the car, my brother said in a stern voice “Stay here, dont move a muscle” and I obey’d, I stood in the car for about 20 mins before I heard a noise. I got out of the car and walked through gravel to the large warehouse, I didn’t see anything at first. I opened the warehouse door to find the warehouse DEAD EMPTY, my brother was no where in sight. I began panicking and suddenly found something. I found a dead body, I could not figure out who the person was but I knew to call the police, I hurried to the car and grabbed my cell phone and dialed 911. They said they would trace the call as I had no idea where I was and it ended up taking them a while before they got to the scene of the crime. The cops looked for clues to my brothers whereabouts and were quite interested in every single detail I could remember, I told them everything from that morning till now. They said the guys name was Bruce Chung, a known gang of the Mafia. Bruce Chung was wanted for alot of small crimes and more, they said my brother was in some sort of trouble also but when they finished looking around my brother was gone. I was taken to the station and was questioned some more, and was put into a orphanage and was told if my brother was found I would be called on the spot.

Though the blog hasn’t been updated since almost the middle of December we actually have had a live show every week. Just a reminder to folks following this blog. We do a live stream of this show every Friday after 3:30pm PST. Sometimes it’s right at 3:30pm PST, sometimes not, but we haven’t missed a week yet.

As for podcasts, we have missed several of those and have been very inconsistent. Here’s what shows haven’t been posted yet (also serving as reference for us, and this will be updated after posting, just FYI):

The checkbox will be checked and strikethru on the show number/date once we are caught up, unless otherwise noted above. The plan will be tomorrow to post within an hour after each show so at least we stay up with the current shows.

We skipped from show #38 to show #51 and were actually good about posting the podcasts right away after each show for three shows, stopping again at show #55.

People with no goals usually don’t succeed, atleast thats what I heard. So I made a list of my webmaster related goals and here they are-

1. Be prepared to each show, with something to talk about (No dead air)
2. To get lots of traffic for Webmaster Cookbook
3. To get Spawn to say something more than yes, no, maybe, during the show
4. To get into a routine of posting something everyday on both Webmaster Cookbook and Orting
5. To get into a routine of getting traffic and visiting blogs on Blog Explosion

These are just 5 of my goals, but I wonder what are your goals? These goals that I talked about are all short term goals, one of my long term goals is to become a great engineer and I am making lots of progress to that.

I’ve noticed that Jowl has renewed excitement in Blog Explosion. Perhaps it is that they are running their $1,000 Christmas cash giveway or the new scratch card game.

We started the show a bit late because I came into the studio 10 minutes late because my teacher would only accept late work if it was done at school. I ended up staying and getting 4 assignments done which was good, then I came to the studio and the show starts up and ChefTD out of nowhere says Jowl and Spawn I am going to let you guys have this 15 minutes to talk about how we could improve the show during the week. Spawn could not help saying anything more then yes, no, maybe. So I basically ended up talking alot of the time I suggested that we start doing blogexplosion every day to increase the amount of traffic coming. Spawn suggested that we should start saying the link to our chatroom at the beginning of the show and I thought that was a great idea. Then the show came to the end and we asked everyone if they had any ideas on how we could improve the show during the week. If you have any ideas be sure to tell us because we are open to any ideas.

Today in the show we talked about our new camera that we bought. It is called Kodak z760. We linked a picture from putting the camera into the computer onto webmastercookbook and we called it a dust covered phone. We also spoke a little bit about forms, me and ChefTd worked a little on it before the show. We put codes together and we mixed alot of other things to create code that now seems familiar to me. We are going to talk more about it on next weeks show.

The dust covered phone is shown below:

This is the real Jowl as a cartoon

This was a demo close up that we took of a dusty studio phone using the Kodak z760

Okay, ChefTD pulled me onto Pandora which was created by Music Genome Project. Pandora is a free music station where you select music titles or artists that you wish to have on your station. The free version of Pandora has advertisements but I have listened to 20+ songs and not heard a advertisement. You can get Pandora at this site, when you get there if you like rock and roll you can listen to my stations which are JOWLS ROCKING ROCK, and Jowls station or you can listen to ChefTD’s station which is TD’s Rock Radio. This is a good music service and I highly reccomend it because all i’ve been hearing is good music, and they have all types of music if your not into the music not me or ChefTD like you can create your own station and then start adding music.

Today ChefTD taught Jowl how to be a better dj than he was, I reviewed what I wrote earlier about what I knew about PHP thus far. We also reviewed concatenation, which means you link stuff together and the symbol for concatenation is a dot like so (.). We also talked about the basic auctioning, we actioned off my brain and Jowls arm. We also talked about tagging.Tagging is like bookmarking, when you tag it is like saving an item to your favorites folder so you can come back to it later on. I have started to talk more in the show but my enthustiam needs some work as Jowl puts it. We will be back on the course next week as Chef TD tells us, this is what we learned today in the show.

I have learned how to use many functions, I have used functions like the Time, Date, C-type Method, Print, Concatenation, Conditionals, Switch/Case, and I looked up the ahref function in ChefTD’s HTML book called. I’ve also learned how to write many forms of code with these types of code writing materials. I learned how to also start PHP code, and it goes “less then question mark and PHP, question mark greater then”. I am hoping to use these functions to write games, ChefTd has told me we will learn this later in our courses, as we still have many weeks to go. This is what I have learned and still hope to learn. The following is what ChefTD has to say about this book:

Perl and CGI For The World Wide Web ****
by Elizabeth Castro

There are many webmasters out there who would
like to learn Perl but have probably picked up some of the more tech-only type Perl books
(the ones with the Llama on the front). No Webmaster interested in programming in Perl or
who runs Perl script should be without this book. This is indispensible for your
library.

I’m back and I know it has been a while since I posted something on the site. Last week I was at school getting caught up on some work because I was sick for a few days. Today I am going to be writing show notes and getting as much done as humanly possible between 10:30 A.M. and 1:30 P.M. I will also be working on the show notes and such after the show as always, and I hope to get some help from Spawn. Today the shows notes for 55,56, should be posted today and 57 will be ready to be posted tomorrow. I will be working on doing a better job of posting every week because that is my job and I have indeed been neglecting my job and duties.

First we booted up the windows explorer browser, then we went to the course reading material. Then the browser crashed on Spawn’s machine, ChefTD thought that the MSN toolbar might of been causing Internet Explorer to crash. ChefTD stepped in and tried to fix Spawn’s browser issues, and spawn and I began to read at the top of the course material for this week. ChefTD then fixed the browser and Spawn and I kept on reading. We learned how to comment our code using the type C method, the type C method is used in commenting your code. If you use the type C method, then you can see the stuff you learned while writing the code because if you write a code you will probably forget how you wrote it. Then ChefTD said that for every PHP document we start we use this:

and then we end our script with

and thats how we start and end every script. Then ChefTD told us to make a string and told us that it would look like this:

$myname = ‘Jowl’;

Then we saved the document that we made as 1b1.php, and FTP’d that to our weekly folder.

Links Discussed:
PSPad - Windows-based free text editor with lots of code syntax options. WMcookbook recommended!
Firefox - an alternative browser to Internet Explorer. (ChefTD note: For those looking for the bleeding edge of browsers, try another Mozilla variation: Flock)

Original live airdate: Friday October 7, 2005 at 3:30pm PST / 6:30 pm EST
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Alright so im writing code and I go to upload it and I get a parse error that says

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /web/sites/tdavid/webmastercookbook.com/courses/php101/jowl/1b1.php on line 7.

I’m unsure of what a T variable is so can anyone help me, I looked at my line 7 and don’t see any errors, here is line 7:

Both spawn and I have run into the same problem and we have also had many errors but have worked through them, I will ask ChefTD about a T variable later on in the show today.

I fixed it by changing my code to this, i figured out i was missing a closing tag.

Update 1:15pm PST: I just learned that I was not suppose to put a print out in front of the dollar sign and that the code up there is still wrong. (from ChefTD: Yes, you can put print in front of the $string, but you were trying to print and then assign at the same time, which is not what you wanted to do.)

Update 1:20pm PST: (from ChefTD) Jowl, here is what you want to do:

First we opened up a new document in Pspad then we went to week #1 course reading material and started to read the information on that page. We then wrote down our first PHP script in the Pspad and the code for that script was:

Then once we finished writing that code we uploaded it into our server via FTP and I found that my code was wrong and had to redo my code several times before I finally got it right.

Links Discussed:
Week #1 course text (Lesson #1a)

Original live airdate: Friday September 23, 2005 at 3:30pm PST / 6:30 pm EST
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We started our setup for the PHP course we are going to do next week, we introduced a new member to the show named Spawn. The setup involved Spawn and I opening up Windows Explorer and going to our shared documents folder then making a new folder named courses. Then we made a subfolder inside of courses called PHP and then we made a subfolder inside of the PHP folder called Jowl. Then we put 32 subfolders inside of Jowl and labeled them from 1-32, we labeled all the way to 32 because this course will take at least 32 weeks.

Links Discussed:
Cyberwurx Hosting - PHP hosting for as little as $5 a month
Cyberduck - Good FTP clients for the Mac
Smart Ftp - Windows-based drag/drop FTP editor, similar in design and functionality to Windows Explorer
Notetab - good text editor for Windows, the light version is free
PSPad - Windows-based free text editor with lots of code syntax options. WMcookbook recommended!

Original live airdate: Friday September 23, 2005 at 3:30pm PST / 6:30 pm EST
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Today we talked about fixing up a old PHP course that ChefTD made and we’re going to go through it and update it. Then he is going to take me through the course and by the end I should be able to work on creating my own messsageboard script for Webmaster Cookbook from scratch.

The training starts in 2 weeks, on Friday September 23, 2005 and it will go for approximently 32 weeks and will be about 30 mins to 1 hour per show depending on how the show goes. I will be posting many things on this site, including my to-do assignments, so look forward to seeing that start in a couple weeks.

If you’d like to learn how to program in PHP then set your calendars. The podcast’s from the PHP course will be posted up on this site and will be free for you to listen to as always. We also talked about what two things you needed to start PHP, those two things were a text editor and a ftp.

Some examples of text editors that ChefTD gave were Notetab, and Pspad. ChefTD also gave examples of ftp clients and they were, Cyberduck for the mac, and smartftp.

Original live airdate: Friday September 9, 2005 at 3:30pm PST / 6:30 pm EST
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We talked through Skype while doing BlogEvent. Listened to artist: Somewhere Between Here And There, the song was entitled “So What’s It All About.” I rated the the song a 5 on a scale from 1 to 10. Also talked about what BlogEvent is because Forser had asked what it was. It is a place for writing and submitting drafts and seeing what other people are writing about. Write into a draft, check it over to make it perfect, then publish it. ChefTD pointed out to me that the podcasts were five weeks behind and that we needed to get them up. It was an extremely short addition of Webmaster Cookbook.

Original live airdate: Friday May 13, 2005 at 3 pm PST / 6 pm EST
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Well this weekend is Labor Day weekend which means I don’t have to go back to school on monday I can just stay home because its a day off. So that is cool but what will I spend my 3 days doing, so many things I can do possibly I’ll go outside or read a book. Playing on the computer gets boring after a while but I do like it and well I will head outside this weekend. The exercising that ChefTD and I have been doing has made me lose weight, and now I cant fit into my pants. So I guess the working out has done me well even though its hard to get up.