Review: Bose Companion 2 Series II Multimedia Computer Speaker System
tl;dr : Five stars for sound quality (especially considering the size of the speakers), but a 3 for the price (you still pay for the Bose® name).
For a very long time, I've used my computer, with a 24"+ display, as my TV, computer, DVD/Blu-Ray player, Xbox 360 setup, etc. Because of this, I had my 5.1 surround sound system
Review: TRENDnet 5-Port Gigabit GREENnet Switch
tl;dr : Priced perfectly, works perfectly, and is perfect for a small office or home network.
This will be a somewhat quicker review than I normally post, for the simple fact that there's very little to be said about this switch, other than it works, it's priced well, and it's absolutely perfect for my needs.
In my condo, I've changed around my wired/wireless network a few times since moving in,
Programmatically Adding or Removing a User or Node Reference from a Node (D7 / References)
The References module in Drupal 7 allows for easy creation and removal of user and node references through Drupal's interface. However, programmatically adding and removing these references is a little more difficult.
You basically have to load the node which has the reference in it, edit the reference field (in my example, the reference field can have an unlimited number of references), add or remove the user ID (or node ID if you're chaging a node reference), and save the node.
Let's
Does it Surprise Anybody?
Does it surprise anybody that the only woman interviewed in Fox 2 KTVI's video about the Hooters/Catholic Charities fundraising event objected to the event?
What, might I ask, do women think about the fact that the exploitation of the female body is the primary money-maker for Hooters?
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Do the Ends Justify the Means?
Thomas Aquinas, on whether the ends justify the means :
On the contrary, Boethius says (De Differ. Topic. ii) that "if the end is good, the thing is good, and if the end be evil, the thing also is evil."
That is a simple way of stating it, but he elaborates:
Nothing hinders an action that is good in one of the way mentioned above, from lacking goodness in another way. And thus it may happen that an action which is good in its
[Updated] No Reason for Catholic Charities to Support Hooters
[ Update : I just heard from a Catholic Charities employee that the CC president, Brian O'Malley, has cancelled the event. Great news! Hopefully this is the last time that crops up...].
I recently received an email from a friend (actually, I received a few emails, from a few different friends) advertising a fundraising dinner for St. Patrick Center (a Catholic Charities affiliated organization that does a lot of great things for the homeless and jobless in St. Louis).
The
Views: Show "Showing X-X of X results" (page and result counter) in Drupal 7
[ Update : Views 3.x has a really nifty plugin feature called 'Results summary' that you can simply add to the header or footer of your view, and use your own text with placeholders, to do everything I outline in the post below, without a line of code. Add a results summary instead of using hook_views_pre_render() or a Views PHP field.]
I needed to display a page/item counter on a view on one of my Drupal 7 sites, using
Reeder App for Mac released on Mac App Store
See what I had to say about Reeder, the best RSS reader for the Mac, on my personal blog »
Reeder [on the Mac App Store].
Reeder (RSS reader) for Mac released - finally out of beta!
Reeder , the new best RSS reader for Mac, is finally out of beta! It's only $9.99, on the Mac App Store .
Reeder is great, because all I ever do is arrow-down through news stories, glance over ones I might be interested, press 'B' to
Review: iRig mic for iOS and Android
tl;dr : Great-sounding, reasonably-priced microphone, purpose-built for the smartphones and tablets, with few downsides.
The iRig mic was introduced in 2011, and promised to be one of the best ways to get sound from your mouth or instrument into the iPhone 4, iPod Touch or iPad/iPad 2. Since then, it has been tested to work with newer iOS devices like the iPhone 5, and many Android phones. I'