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Archive - Mar 4, 2004

scifi.com: Stargate SG-1 Board Game

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Thu, 03/04/2004 - 2:00am

My review of this science fiction board game by Fleet Games is now online. Read the full story.

wired.com: How the Mars Rovers Phone Home

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Thu, 03/04/2004 - 2:00am

The Mars rovers use wireless networking and orbiting spacecraft to send mountains of data back to Earth. Read the full story.

Randomized Headaches

Posted in by Kenneth Newquist on Thu, 03/04/2004 - 2:00am

I've recently been considering the question of how best to display random information from a database. Specificially, I've been working on a randomizer for Nuketown that would display a random banner ad every time one of the PHP driven pages was loaded. This blog entry details my attempts to create a random generator via MySQL ... and how I ditched that solution in favor of PHP.