I've got mail is a witty take on spam from Richter Scales. It is a 2007 CARA Nominee in Best Humor Song category. Listen to find how spam gives meaning in life, not to mention three additional inches and more.

A beautiful educational musical video based on Billy Joel's "We Didn't Stop the Fire", explaining the process from conception to childbirth. It is made for MU med school class of 2010. The lyrics is below.

strip_tags() in PHP has several problems. It doesn't recognize that css within the style tags are not document text. It will not remove HTML entities or content within script tags. strip_tags() fails for invalid HTML. In short strip_tags() is not advisable to use except for trivial cases. The best solution I have come across is by uersoy at tnn dot net:

I am pretty down with fever, possible viral. Yesterday night was 100% sleepless. Let's see how it goes tonight. ciao...

SSH is aptly termed as poor man's VPN. You can use it to either forward local host host name and port to a remote server running ssh daemon. You can also use it to forward remote server's port to a local host and port.