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PHP Contact Form With Simple Spam Filtering

( Code and HTML and PHP )

Here is some code to handle a simple contact form and email it to someone. This is another piece of code that has grown at of various sources, the is_dodgy function and usage came from a contact form plugin for wordpress which can be downloaded from http://chip.cuccio.us/projects/contact-form-ii/. You’ll need to download XPertMailer from http://xpertmailer.sourceforge.net/ and [...]

PHP Email Address Validation

( Code and PHP )

I’ve built up various libraries of code over the years, always improving and changing. This bit of code should attempt to validate an email address, it first checks the format of it is correct then does an mx check on the domain name, I built the function based on various bits and bobs from around [...]

PS3 not so backwards compatible (EU users get shafted again)

( PS3 )

It looks like EU users will be getting a combination of software and hardware emulation for psone and ps2 games. There will be a compatibility list with updates for games that don’t work, similar to how the XBOX 360 works. What this means is there will limited number of psone and ps2 games that will [...]

Wiiminder – Enhanced Wii Web Browsing

( Wii )

This is an excellent addition to the wii browser, just type wiiminder into your wii browser to use it!
More info: http://www.wiiminder.com/

PS3’s secret

( PS3 )

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/15/one-ps3-store-display-hides-a-terrible-secret/

New Voting Channel for the Wii

( Wii )

My Wii was glowing blue this morning, there’s a new channel for voting. Nothing amazing about it yet, but I’d expect nintendo to have a few polls in the future that will allow users to vote on things that will effect their console.

UV Club Night

( Random )

In support of one of my good friends, I’ll be dj’ing at an accessible club night for 13-19 year olds in Watford tonight at the Baraka Club, in Watford.
UV is a party in a safe, accessible nightclub, with a friendly accepting atmosphere, for ravers aged 13-19 in Hertfordshire. It’s lit by loads of UV lights, [...]

New York hopes to ban ipods/mobiles/etc from been used on streets

( Random and Rants )

Madness? Clever?
A New York state senator has announced his plan to introduce legislation that would ban the use of electronic devices such as iPods, BlackBerrys and cell phones while crossing streets in major cities.
If you are caught doing it then you can get a fine for $100.
Personally I’d find it annoying taking my headphones off [...]

Let it snow

( Random )

Woke up this morning to a good 5 cms of snow, unfortunately I work from home so can’t get away from not working. Looking at the weather report we are probably going to get 15cm through the day!
Thats the most snow we’ve had for a long time, the whole of the UK is covered, I’m [...]

What’s your hearing range

( Random )

Found this whilst browsing a forum, basically play back each sample below until you can’t hear the sample when played. When I do it I can hear everything, as you get older you will probably start to lose the higher frequencies, I had to turn the volume up a little to hear the last few, [...]