I updated FlickrMyG so that it now allows you to add an exclude list to the getUserSets function.
Function reference: http://wiki.faulk.me/index.php?n=FlickrMyG.GetUserSets
Download newest version: http://svn.faulk.me/listing.php?repname=FlickrMyG&
Socialism (according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism):
“Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating state, worker or public ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation. Contrary to popular belief, socialism is not a political system; it is an economic system distinct from capitalism.”
I find it funny or sad or I guess just scary that people think that a socialist health care program, witch is not exactly what Obama is asking for, is going to take there rights away, control there “right to freedom”, provide a health system that is worst then the one we currently have, create “death panels” (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8298267&page=1) or that people could even think that Obama is even like Hitler for purposing such a idea.
Its interesting to see comments like “Yes, but SOCIALISM. Better dead than Red!” posted around the internet. Really “Red” red like red China or Russia implies communism not socialism. I think this is the biggest misunderstanding of socialism. Socialism is as wikipedia puts it “socialism is not a political system;” such as communism, “it is an economic system”, like capitalism. Do people not see that in so many ways we are already a socialist state in part? Look at all the services that are socialist services, the fire departments, police departments, FBI, CIA, the military, social security (shit that has social in its name), are school system, fish and game, food stamps, almost any service that is run by the government is a social service. Would you feel comfortable having are military run privately?, or the FBI, you weary about your right to privacy being compromised see what happens if the FBI gets outsourced/privatized.
Well that’s my rant for now.
Last Thursday I traded in my old truck a ‘97 Ford F-150 XLT 4.2L for a new ‘09 Toyota Tacoma 4-cyl 2.7L and its my favorite color black.
The old trucks trad in value was worth little to nothing but using the Government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program I was able to get $4,500 off the new truck.
About the program:
You can find more info at the officeal web site: http://cars.gov
Over the last two weeks I’ve been working on a new web site. The site started out as a frustration I have with web sites that use email validation scripts to check users email addresses format. What I have noticed is that most email validation scripts check to see if the user name has alpha, alphanumeric or a few other standard characters such as a underscore “_”. Most of the validation scripts do not allow for a plus sign “+” to be in the email address even know a plus is an acceptable character, and one that I use in my email addresses.
After running into two or three site that do not use a validation script that is RFC5322 compliant in one day I decided to start a web site about it. I started to research what was an acceptable email address and found out that the RFC standard pretty much allows any character in the local part of an email address. The local part of the email address is the name or part before the last at symbol “@”. exp local@domain.tld
The site had turned into more then just a place for me to complain about validation script, it had turned into a tool for developers to use. It will check an email address to see if it is RFC5322 compliant, it will also check to see if the email address’s domain is listed on a number of spam blacklists and it will check to see if the email address is listed on forum spam blacklists.
At the moment the site is still in beta so not all functions are avalebe.
and the site is: http://legitimize.me
I started a new web site last week (http://wordsfor.me). As the about page states:
“I started this project because I love words, the sound the meaning and the “feel” of them.
I am dyslexic and reading and writing has always and will always be a challenge for me; but because of the amount of efferent I have to put into a word, sentence, or book I find that I have fallen in love with the “word”. So I put together this site to share some of the words that resonate with me or just sound exquisite on the tongue or have a definition I find excellent.”
I’ve started a list of software, tools, utilitys, and web sites that I find useful (Software List)
I spent the better part of yesterday (01/24/09) updating the look and feeling of http://down-time.com
Take a look at it and let me know what you think 
Over the last year I have been to three weddings two for family and one for friends. I wanted to post some of the pictures that I took at the weddings.
My friends Steve and Erin’s wedding
My uncle Scott and his wife Jessica’s wedding.
My cousin’s Julie and her husben Andy’s wedding.
Over the last few days I have been working on getting my “Experimental Development” site (http://faulk.me/) up and running, and as of yesterday it is.
I wanted the site to be where I post projects that I’m working on so that the public can use them. Right now I only have two of my projects up there, I hope to add more as I get time.
On a side note, I was working with the Clark and Atkins for Eureka city council campaign as a web app developer for them. The campaign is now over and some good came from are efferts, Linda Atkins was elected to the Eureka city council, sadly George Clark was not.
-Winter
Last night after hours the FDIC ceased Washington Mutual and sold its assets off to JPMorgan Chase, in the process they screwed every share holder. I personally only lost about $80, not much at all but I have see that some people have lost $30k or more.
From last weeks shorts freeze, this bullshit bailout, and now this, I think it is time for are goverment and us to deside if we are a socialist country or a capitalis county. As things stand right now we are socialist for the rich when things are bad and capitalist for the rich when things are good and we the lower and mid class just get fucked. We are left paying for others bad ideas, we are left with no health care, we are left with no jobs, and we are left with a list of bad things that is just too long.
Sorry for the rant.
-Winter