Recent Updates Page 2 RSS Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Sleem 10:39 pm on March 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Men are just happier than women 


    Nicknames:

    • If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
    • If Mike , Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.


    Eating out:

    • When the bill arrives, Mike , Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50.  None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
    • When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.


    Money:

    • A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
    • A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she  doesn’t need but it’s on sale.


    Bathrooms

    • A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream , razor, a bar of soap, and a  towel …
    • The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337.  A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these  items.


    Arguments:

    • A woman has the last word in any argument.
    • Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.


    Future:

    • A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband..
    • A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.


    Success:

    • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
    • A successful woman is one who can find such a man.


    Marriage:

    • A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.
    • A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.


    Dressing up:

    • A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
    • A man will dress up for weddings and funerals .


    Natural:

    • Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
    • Women somehow deteriorate during the night.


    Offspring:

    • Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends , favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
    • A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.


    Thought for the day:

    A married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no use in two people remembering the same thing!

    Share this with women who have a sense of humor and who can handle it …. And to the men who will enjoy reading it.

    Next Article: How to Make Money

     

    • Laura 9:23 pm on August 19, 2010 Permalink

      My name is Laura and I tried calling my girl friends Fat Girl and Four Eyes after reading this and now we’re not talking :(

    • Kris 9:24 am on August 14, 2010 Permalink

      I am a woman and found this website through stumleupon and I think its hilarious, Almost everything is true. A couple don’t apply to me but most do… lol.

    • Kizzy 8:20 am on August 11, 2010 Permalink

      Funny

    • Linda 2:52 am on August 6, 2010 Permalink

      oh sweety its true, if you dont think so, your head is in the sand………….
      I think its great, I just love men. Thats why there is two speices, they are different.

    • R 8:27 pm on August 5, 2010 Permalink

      im a woman…. but after reading this… i feel more like a man…..is that sad :S

    • David 8:17 pm on August 5, 2010 Permalink

      Too bad it is true lol.

    • Debbie Deland 5:54 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink

      Female here. Thought it was cute. Get a life if you didn’t get a smile or chuckle.

    • David Slater 4:20 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink

      Funny one

    • Palaverer 3:13 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink

      Ha ha, isn’t it funny how male privilege keeps men happier than women. Oh, I’m sorry, we’re supposed to believe these are biological differences, not the results of cultural programming.

    • cec 11:23 pm on August 4, 2010 Permalink

      1.) ironically it is hilariously true for the most part which is a bit sad
      2.) the worst part…i am female
      3.) sometimes life is like that
      lmao

    • Why can't we be friends? 10:26 pm on August 4, 2010 Permalink

      Ok let’s all calm down now.
      Ladies, Let’s not take it seriously, WE know these things are not true. So let’s just enjoy the joke at a stereotype’s expense.
      And as for everyone else, after years of fighting against the stereotype, some people’s first reaction is to get angry, when they are feeling.. well stereotyped. It makes sense why some people would be offended by it.

  • Sleem 9:36 am on March 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Sharm El-Sheikh 

    Sharm El Sheikh

    Sharm El Sheikh which gave the Red Sea an international reputation as one of the world’s most
    Sharm El Sheikh, The most extraordinary diving destination in Red Sea, Egypt.

    Imagine yourself in one of the most beautiful and famous deep-sea diving paradises in the world. Your dreams of crystal clear water, magnificent corals, exotic under water flora and rare tropical fish all come true when you visit Sharm El Sheikh on the Southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.

    Let your eyes be tantalized by the white sandy beaches and endless desert landscape, which contrast with the crystal clear blue water of the Sinai peninsula.

    Sharm El Sheikh has been heralded as “The City of Peace”
    It is also noted for its sulphur springs, which are considered cures for those suffering from rheumatic and skin diseases.
    The morphology of Sharm El Sheikh’s coastline is unique.
    It is the cosmopolitan capital of the peninsula of Sinai for its small, intimate hotels with modern designs, as well as larger hotel complexes belonging to International chains.

    Plus about all the amenities one could expect of a tourist center, including casinos, discos and nightclubs, golf courses and health facilities. In fact, with diving and snorkeling, windsurfing and other water sports, horses and camel riding, desert safaris, and great nearby antiquities attractions, it is almost impossible for a visitor to ever suffer from boredom.
    Sharm El Sheikh is basically divided into three main regions:

  • Na’ama Bay

    • This long sandy bay was where the first hotel appeared in the early eighties. The development of the shore-line on this bay is now complete and the seafront boasts a beautiful paved walkway, lined with bougainvillaea and oleander, following the full sweep of the bay. Na’ama Bay is the target for tourists in the evenings. This is where you will find many shops, restaurants, bars and ‘Sheesha’ cafes.

  • Ras Um Sid Cliff:

    • This is the cliff top area that links Na’ama Bay and the bay of Sharm El Maya. Ras Um Sid is centrally situated about 5 minutes drive from Sharm in one direction and Na’ama in the other. Ras Om El Seed also is famous for its coral reefs, has a very high cliff where many hotels are situated.

  • Sharm El Maya

    • This is the name given to the bay area old town of Sharm El Sheikh. The picturesque bay is a natural harbour and home to many small boats. The beautiful sandy beach has a profusion of palm trees providing natural shade for the sun loungers. This beach area of Sharm El Maya has only recently been developed with 5* hotels, and the old town is only a short walk away.

    As you might expect in such a prime diving location, there is a large selection of private companies offering diving courses at all levels and it is one of the cheapest places in the world to pick up a PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) qualification.
    Sharm El Sheikh has turned out to be one of the finest places for people to enjoy the best sun, sea, sand, and hospitality of its residents.
    It is surrounded by three protected areas:
    1. Ras Mohammed Natural Protected Park
    2. St. Katherine National Park
    3. Nabq Protected Area

 

  • Sleem 5:26 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Amazing blue shipping container camera! 

    This huge camera has been made out of a shipping container and a wireless link to a nearby screen!

     

  • Sleem 5:21 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Top 10 Brain Damaging Habits 

    1. No Breakfast: People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
    2. Overeating: It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in menta! l power.
    3. Smoking: It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
    4. High Sugar consumption: Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
    5. Air Pollution: The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhalin! g polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
    6. Sleep Deprivation: Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.
    7. Head covered while sleeping: Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
    8. Working your brain during illness: Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
    9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts: Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
    10. Talking Rarely: Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
     

  • Sleem 3:53 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    Top 5 Cancer causes Foods 

    • Hot dogs

    Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can’t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.
    Processed meats and bacon
    Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

    • Doughnuts

    Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

    • French fries

    Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acrylamides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not ! French fries, said Adams .

    • Chips, crackers, and cookies

    All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

     

  • Sleem 3:56 pm on January 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 4-bytes UTF-8, 4bytes utf8, Java, JDBC, , php, varchar   

    storing 4-bytes utf8 characters in MySQL 

    Prior to MySQL Server 6, some utf8 characters that is represented in 4-bytes like are not supported in utf8 varchars, even if its collation was set to utf8_bin, when you try to store a string with 4 bytes UTF-8 character it will generate an error like this: Incorrect string value: ‘\xF0\x90\x80\x80\xF0\x90…’ for column ‘xxx’ at row 1 an example of these characters is the title of this page at Wiktionary (click here) I looked around for a solution but I wasn’t lucky, seen many reports about it but not a single solution, I figured it out and it was very easy to implement one, which is saving the string as binary and bypass all the character processing in MySQL storage engine and move it to the business logic, very simple: Set the column you want to save the string in as varbinary: CREATE TABLE sleem( four_bytes_utf8_column varbinary(255) NOT NULL )ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; When you fill this field from your client, just add the string directly as you insert a varchar, then it will be saved without any error (tested on Java – JDBC client and MySQL Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution) but when you retrieve the value, use the binary mode and convert it to a utf8 string in the code: String x = new String(rs.getBytes("four_bytes_utf8_column"), "UTF-8"); Note: if you are worried about full text search, then don’t be because it supports such datatype My colleague is a PHP player, he was able to insert/fetch successfully using PHP v5 so I guess this solution is cross MySQL client

     

  • Sleem 3:38 pm on December 31, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: function, , sql, url decode, url encode, urldecode, urlencode   

    URL decoding / encoding varchars in MySQL 

    This is a simple way to url-decode MySQL varchars. I have been looking for a function in MySQL which can url-decode varchars in MySQL databases, it is so strange that MySQL doesn’t has such function, I found some efforts around,  about 2, 3 different versions, but couldn’t convince myself to use them, they contain too many function calls and seemed to me not efficient enough, so I built one for myself and it worked100% with UTF-8 encoded URLs

    DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS urldecode;

    DELIMITER |

    CREATE FUNCTION urldecode (s VARCHAR(4096)) RETURNS VARCHAR(4096) CHARSET utf8

    DETERMINISTIC

    BEGIN

    DECLARE c VARCHAR(4) DEFAULT ”;

    DECLARE l INT DEFAULT 1;

    DECLARE p INT DEFAULT 1;

    DECLARE h VARCHAR(4096) DEFAULT ”;

    IF ISNULL(s) THEN

    RETURN NULL;

    END IF;

    SET h = ”;

    SET l = LENGTH(s);

    WHILE p <= l DO

    SET c = SUBSTR(s,p,1);

    IF  c = ‘%’ AND p + 2 <= l THEN

    SET c = UPPER(SUBSTR(s,p+1,2));

    SET p = p + 2;

    ELSE

    SET c = HEX(c);

    END IF;

    SET h = CONCAT(h,c);

    SET p = p + 1;

    END WHILE;

    RETURN UNHEX(h);

    END;

    |

    DELIMITER ;

    Note: If you want to url-encode, just reverse the logic of this function

     

  • Sleem 11:10 am on March 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Horoscopes and Personalities, is it really true? 

    ARIES – The Aggressive

    Outgoing. Lovable. Spontaneous. Not one to mess with. Funny. Excellent kisser EXTREMELY adorable. Loves relationships, and family is very important to an Aries.  Aries are known for being generous and giving. Addictive. Loud. Always has the need to be ‘Right’. Aries will argue to prove their point for hours and hours.  Aries are some of the most wonderful people in the world.


    TAURUS – The Tramp

    Aggressive. Loves being in long relationships.  Likes to give a good fight.
    Fight for what they want. Can be annoying at times, but for the love of attention.  Extremely outgoing. Loves to help people in times of need. Good kisser. Good personality. Stubborn. A caring person. They can be self centered and if they want something they will do anything to get it. They love to sleep and can be lazy.  One of a kind. Not one to mess with. Are the most attractive people on earth!


    GEMINI – The Twin

    Nice. Love is one of a kind. Great listeners Very Good at confusing people… Lover not a fighter, but will still knock you out. Gemini’s will not take any crap from anyone. Gemini’s like to tell people what they should do and get offended easily.  They are great at losing things and are forgetful.  Gemini’s can be very sarcastic and childish at times, and are very nosey.
    Trustworthy. Always happy. VERY Loud. Talkative. Outgoing VERY FORGIVING. Loves to make out. Has a beautiful smile. Generous. Strong. THE MOST IRRESISTIBLE.

    CANCER – The Beauty

    MOST AMAZING KISSER. Very high appeal. A Cancer’s Love is one of a kind. Very romantic. Most caring person you will ever meet in your life.  Entirely creative Person, most’s are artists and insane respectfully speaking.  They perfected sex and do it often.  Extremely random. An Ultimate Freak. Extremely funny and is usually the life of the party.  Most cancers will take you under their wing and into their hearts where you will remain forever.  Cancers make love with a passion beyond compare
    Spontaneous.  Not a Fighter, But will kick your ass good if it comes down to it. Someone you should hold on to!


    LEO – The Lion

    Great talker. Attractive and passionate. Laid back. Usually happy, but when unhappy tend to be grouchy and childish.  A Leo’s problem becomes everyone’s problem.  Most Leos are very predictable and tend to be monotonous. Knows how to have fun. Is really good at almost anything. Great kisser. Very predictable. Outgoing.  Down to earth. Addictive. Attractive. Loud. Loves being in long relationships. Talkative. Not one to mess with. Rare to find. Good when found.

    VIRGO – The One that Waits

    Dominant in relationships. Someone loves them right now. Always wants the last word. Caring. Smart. Loud. Loyal. Easy to talk to. Everything you ever wanted. Easy to please. A pushover.  Loves to gamble and take chances.  Needs to have the last say in everything.  They think they know everything and usually do.  Respectful to others but you will quickly lose their respect if you do something untrustworthy towards them and never regain respect.  The do not forgive and never forget the one and only.

    LIBRA – The Lame One

    Nice to everyone they meet. Their Love is one of a kind. Silly, fun and sweet. Have own unique appeal. Most caring person you will ever meet! However,  not the kind of person you want to mess with… you might end up crying… Libras can cause as much havoc as they can prevent.  faithful friends to the end.  Can hold a grudge for years.  Libras are someone you want on your side.  Usually great at sports and are extreme sports fanatics.  Kinda dumb at times.


    SCORPIO – The Addict

    EXTREMELY adorable.  Loves to joke. Very Good sense of humor. Will try almost anything once.  Loves to be pampered.  Energetic. Predictable. GREAT kisser. Always get what they want.  Attractive.  Loves being in long relationships. Talkative. Loves to party but at times to the extreme.  Loves the smell and feel of money and is good at making it but just as good at spending it!  Very protective over loved ones. HARD workers. Can be a good friend but if disrespected by a friend, the friendship will end. Romantic. Caring.


    SAGITTARIUS – The Promiscuous One

    Spontaneous. High appeal. Rare to find. Great when found. Loves being in long relationships. So much love to give. A loner most of the time.  Loses patience easily and will not take crap.  If in a bad mood stay FAR away.  Gets offended easily and remembers the offense forever.  Loves deeply but at times will not show it feels it is a sign of weakness.  Has many fears but will not show it.  VERY private person.  Defends loved ones will all their abilities. Can be childish often. Not one to mess with. Very pretty. Very romantic. Nice to everyone they meet. Their Love is one of a kind. Silly, fun and sweet. Have own unique appeal. Most caring person you will ever meet! Amazing in bed..!!! Not the kind of person you want to mess with- you might end up crying.


    CAPRICORN – The Passionate Lover

    Love to bust. Nice. Sassy. Intelligent. Sexy. Grouchy at times and annoying to some.  Lazy and love to take it easy.  But when they find a job or something they like to do they put their all into it.  Proud, understanding and sweet.
    Irresistible. Loves being in long relationships. Great talker. Always
    gets what he or she wants. Cool. Loves to win against other signs especially Gemini’s in sports.  Likes to cook but would rather go out to eat at good restaurants.
    Extremely fun. Loves to joke. Smart.


    AQUARIUS – Does It In The Water

    Trustworthy. Attractive. Great kisser. One of a kind, loves being in
    long-term relationships. Can be clumsy at times but tries hard.  Will take on any project.  Proud of themselves in whatever they do.  Messy, and unorganized.  Procrastinators.  Great lovers, when their not sleeping.  Extreme thinkers. Loves their pets usually more then their family.  Can be VERY irritating to others when they try to explain or tell a story.  Unpredictable. Will exceed your expectations. Not a Fighter, But will Knock your lights out.


    PISCES – The Partner for Life

    Caring and kind. Smart. Center of attention. Messy at times and irresponsible!  Smart but lazy.  High appeal. Has the last word. Good to find, hard to keep. Passionate, wonderful lovers.  Fun to be around. Too trusting at times and gets hurt easily.  Lover of animals.  VERY caring, make wonderful nurses or doctors. They always try to do the right thing sometimes get the short end of the stick.  They sometimes get used by others and hurt because of their trusting.   Extremely weird but in a good way. Good Sense of Humor!!! Thoughtful. Always gets what he or she wants. Loves to joke. Very popular. Silly, fun and sweet. Good friend to other but need to be choosy on who they allow their friends to be.

     

    • ← Newer Posts

    c
    compose new post
    j
    next post/next comment
    k
    previous post/previous comment
    r
    reply
    e
    edit
    o
    show/hide comments
    t
    go to top
    l
    go to login
    h
    show/hide help
    esc
    cancel