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This is a pretty amazing service. And it’s free!… To everyone!

Let’s say that I need to get a number of a pizza joint near here. I just call 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411), say my city and state. Then i can either say “Jano’s Pizza” or even just like “Pizza” and it’ll give me a list of relevant places. I can request more information about a returned item, like for example maybe “Goodfellla’s Pizza” came up, I just say “details.” I can also have the phone number, address and URL to the address on google maps texted to my phone. Except this doesn’t work for me. Probably because my phone number is ported from sprint to t-mobile. Apparently it’s a common problem with people who move carriers with their old number.

The voice recognition is pretty damn good. One time I said something pretty obscure (though i forgot what it was at this point) and it still got it. It’s actually creepy how good it knows what I am saying. I think out of the 10-20 times I’ve used it, it’s made one voice recognition error and that’s because it was really windy outside.

At no additional cost, Google 411 will automatically connect you to the returned business name, too.

This is an excellent service. And it’s free! Try it out. it’ll come in handy. Personally, i saved it to my phone as “411 Google” so it’s right there at the top of my list.

So.

Today I decided to stay home because I was feeling really under the weather, pretty much all weekend. But I eventually went in (like at 4, which is really late, but meh) and got some work in. Then my friend, Michelle, who now works for the district too wanted to work out, so both of us went down to weight room and of course it’s locked. Can’t I just unlock it? No, of course not. I don’t even have a key to my office. And of course, there were no custodians around. I don’t even know if they would’ve let us in. So we’re gonna try again tomorrow, and probably a lot earlier. Like.. I dunno maybe 2 or 3?

So, instead. We went to the pool room and just hung out with two other kids. Then she drove me to Wawa. I had to get cigarettes for my dad. He needs to quit. Don’t you think so? So, I left wawa and she drove me home. Then like.. I was like. here at my like computer. Totally.

Anyway.

I’m the network manager for Universium IRC network. It’s pretty cool. If you have an IRC client, you should probably point it to irc.universium.net and join #Universium because all the cool people are doing it. I’ll hook y’all with a java applet one of these days. Anyway.. I’ve been working on a PHP powered bot that connects to the network. The bot sits in the staff log channel and takes those logs and saves them to a database. Like so:

This is what the database looks like from a PHPMyAdmin viewer. I then take the data and read from it, so I can review staff actions.. This way, I can check for abuse.

So anyway, I can take that data and format so I can make a webpage to display the logs for review.

Then those flags change the status of the respective entry. If I click a red flag, it highlights the respective entry. This way it stands out.. and also, a flagged entry cannot be deleted until it’s unflagged (or.. green flagged).

It makes my life easier.. also for anyone that is hired to review the logs.