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Your Creative Genius Mindset: The Essential Qualities for “Outside the Box” Thinking
To be creative, is to have the capacity to think freely, openly, without limitations or constraints about problems and challenges confronting our life reality. When we are creative, we tend to see opportunities and possibilities that we would normally filter out of our personal experience. Creativity allows us to think outside of the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and free flowing manner. (more)
WordPress 3.0.4 Important Security Update
Version 3.0.4 of WordPress, available immediately through the update page in your dashboard or for download on WordPress, is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.” (more)
CURL replacement for file_get_contents
Easy way to CURL as easy as file_get_contents in PHP script.
function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
What To Do When Your Website Goes Down
Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of course… Okay, speak to you soon… Bye.” The call may have been followed by some cheesy ’80s rock ballad coming from the speaker phone, interrupted by “Thank you for holding. You are now caller number 126 in the queue.” That’s your boss calling the hosting company’s 24 hour “technical support” line. (more)
Point, pixel, ems, percent conversion
Here’s a chart that converts points to pixels, ems and percent . It’s an approximation, which will depend on font, browser and OS, but it’s a good starting point. (more)
3D Stereogram Images
Stereograms are 3D images hidden within another picture. In order to view the 3-D images, simply stare at the picture until the image starts to take shape.
Tips for Viewing 3-D Stereograms (more)
Why Some People Cannot See Hidden Stereogram Images
The basic principle behind a stereogram depends on the ability for a person to merge multiple objects into one. There are many factors that could inhibit a person’s ability to see the object hidden beneath the initial surface. As an example….place your thumbs and index fingers together in the shape of a triangle, and find an object in the distance to look at through the triangle. (more)

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