get title
<?php
$file = fopen ("http://www.example.com/", "r");
if (!$file) {
echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.\n</p>";
exit;
}
while (!feof ($file)) {
$line = fgets ($file, 1024);
/* This only works if the title and its tags are on one line */
if (eregi ("<title>(.*)</title>", $line, $out)) {
$title = $out[1];
break;
}
}
fclose($file);
?>
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2. Don't power your window all the way down so that the window motor doesn't 'knock' against the stopper.
3. Don't turn your power steering full lock to prevent the buildup of too high a pressure on the power-steering hydraulics.
three lawyers vs. three engineers
Three lawyers and three engineers are traveling by train to a conference.
At the station, the three lawyers each buy tickets and watch as the three
engineers buy only a single ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a lawyer.
"Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer.
They all board the train. The lawyers take their respective seats but all
three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door behind them.
Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting
tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The
door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand.
The conductor takes it and moves on.
The lawyers see this and agree that it is quite a clever idea so, after the
conference, they decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save
some money (recognizing the engineers' superior intellect).
When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip.
To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed lawyer.
"Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer.
When they board the train the three lawyers cram into a restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby.
The train departs.
Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks over
to the restroom where the lawyers are hiding. He knocks on the door and
says, "Ticket, please."
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I for irony
If they were missionaries
Real-time visionaries
Sitting in a Chinese stew
To view my disinfatuation
I know that I’m a classic case
Watch my disenchanted face
Blame it on the Falun Gong
They’ve seen the end and it can't hold on now
User claims year 2000 should not be a leap year
Various system services, such as SYS$ASCTIM assume that the year 2000
will be a leap year. Although one can never be sure of what will
happen at some future time, there is strong historical precedent for
presuming that the present Gregorian calendar will still be in affect
by the year 2000. Since we also hope that VMS will still be around by
then, we have chosen to adhere to these precedents.
The purpose of a calendar is to reckon time in advance, to show how
many days have to elapse until a certain event takes place in the
future, such as the harvest or the release of VMS V4. The earliest
calendars, naturally, were crude and tended to be based upon the
seasons or the lunar cycle.
The calendar of the Assyrians, for example, was based upon the phases
of the moon. They knew that a lunation (the time from one full moon
to the next) was 29 1/2 days long, so their lunar year had a duration
of 364 days. This fell short of the solar year by about 11 days.
(The exact time for the solar year is approximately 365 days, 5 hours,
48 minutes, and 46 seconds.) After 3 years, such a lunar calendar
would be off by a whole month, so the Assyrians added an extra month
from time to time to keep their calendar in synchronization with the
seasons.
The best approximation that was possible in antiquity was a 19-year
period, with 7 of these 19 years having 13 months (leap months). This
scheme was adopted as the basis for the religious calendar used by the
Jews. (The Arabs also used this calendar until Muhammed forbade
shifting from 12 months to 13 months.)
When Rome emerged as a world power, the difficulties of making a
calendar were well known, but the Romans complicated their lives
because of their superstition that even numbers were unlucky. Hence
their months were 29 or 31 days long, with the exception of February,
which had 28 days. Every second year, the Roman calendar included an
extra month called Mercedonius of 22 or 23 days to keep up with the
solar year.
Even this algorithm was very poor, so that in 45 BC, Caesar, advised
by the astronomer Sosigenes, ordered a sweeping reform. By imperial
decree, one year was made 445 days long to bring the calendar back in
step with the seasons. The new calendar, similar to the one we now
use was called the Julian calendar (named after Julius Caesar). It's
months were 30 or 31 days in length and every fourth year was made a
leap year (having 366 days). Caesar also decreed that the year would
start with the first of January, not the vernal equinox in late March.
Caesar's year was 11 1/2 minutes short of the calculations recommended
by Sosigenes and eventually the date of the vernal equinox began to
drift. Roger Bacon became alarmed and sent a note to Pope Clement IV,
who apparently was not impressed. Pope Sixtus IV later became
convinced that another reform was needed and called the German
astronomer, Regiomontanus, to Rome to advise him. Unfortunately,
Regiomontanus died of the plague shortly thereafter and the plans died
as well.
In 1545, the Council of Trent authorized Pope Gregory XIII to reform
the calendar once more. Most of the mathematical work was done by
Father Christopher Clavius, S.J. The immediate correction that was
adopted was that Thursday, October 4, 1582 was to be the last day of
the Julian calendar. The next day was Friday, with the date of
October 15. For long range accuracy, a formula suggested by the
Vatican librarian Aloysius Giglio was adopted. It said that every
fourth year is a leap year except for century years that are not
divisible by 400. Thus 1700, 1800 and 1900 would not be leap years,
but 2000 would be a leap year since 2000 is divisible by 400. This
rule eliminates 3 leap years every 4 centuries, making the calendar
sufficiently correct for most ordinary purposes. This calendar is
known as the Gregorian calendar and is the one that we now use today.
(It is interesting to note that in 1582, all the Protestant princes
ignored the papal decree and so many countries continued to use the
Julian calendar until either 1698 or 1752. In Russia, it needed the
revolution to introduce the Gregorian calendar in 1918.)
This explains why VMS chooses to treat the year 2000 as a leap year.
Awaiting Your Correspondance - Important Business Matter
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transaction is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully,
Minister of Treasury Paulson
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the colours are anthracite, black and silver
anthracite is a mineral coal containing little of the volatile hydrocarbons and burning almost without flame
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"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message."
Acquiring the skills to become an assassin for hire
- Learn to speak several languages fluently. If you are language-challenged, recruit a sidekick translator in the other country.
- Buy a big gun or two and practice using them. Preferably at moving targets, not just the some lined up beer cans. Go with the laser sight and silencer options—this isn’t a time to cut corners.
- Know how to sneak into countries undetected. Assassinations are all about timing. You'll need to be there when you say you’ll be there.
- Get in shape. You never know when you might have to overpower the ever-present guard. Most bad guys these days have training in martial arts. You probably should, too.
Most people should start by reading the Introduction
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karoshi, from working in a tribe
To me, what the sweatshop image conveys is very long hours of work, unfair compensation, a lack of control over one's work life and a feeling of tremendous insecurity. And I think that all of those characteristics are very powerfully true in a lot of people's lives.
There are 25 million of us who are putting in more than 10 hours each day at the office. And for many people that is the beginning and not the end of their workday. They're the ones who are working during their commutes, after they put their kids to bed at night, on weekends and while they're vacationing. They feel that their jobs can never be done. The workloads have gotten so enormous that they're inescapable.
An alphabetized list of business acronyms
- 3M
- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
- 3PL
- Third Party Logistics
- A&W
- Allen & Wright (Roy Allen and Frank Wright combined their initials to name A&W Root Beer in 1922)
- AA
- Author Alteration (a publishing term)
- AAA
- American Automobile Association
- ADP
- Automatic Data Processing
- AIG
- American International Group
- AMD
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (producer of computer chips)
- AMF
- American Machine & Foundry (bowling lane operators and former owners of Harley Davidson motorcycles)
- AOL
- America Online
- AT&T
- American Telephone and Telegraph
- AX
- Armani Exchange
- B&N
- Barnes & Noble
- B2B
- Business to Business
- B2C
- Business to Consumer
- BBB
- Better Business Bureau
- BHAG
- Big, Hairy Audacious Goal
- BOI
- Business Object Interface
- CEO
- Chief Executive Officer
- CFO
- Chief Financial Officer
- CK
- Calvin Klein
- COB
- Close Of Business
- COGS
- Cost of Goods Sold
- COLA
- Cost of Living Adjustment
- COO
- Chief Operating Officer
- CPK
- California Pizza Kitchen
- CRM
- Client Relationship Management
- CSP
- Certified Speaking Professional
- CTO
- Chief Technology Officer
- DBA
- Doing Business As
- DHL
- Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn (founders of DHL Worldwide Express)
- DK
- Dorling Kindersley
- DKNY
- Donna Karan New York
- DSO
- Days Sales Outstanding
- DSW
- Discount Shoe Warehouse
- EA
- Electronic Arts
- EBX
- Electronics Boutique X
- EMS
- Eastern Mountain Sports
- FANNIE MAE
- Federal National Mortgage Association (a privately owned corporation)
- FLP
- Family Limited Partnership
- FSB
- Fortune Small Business
- FT
- Full Time
- FTE
- Full Time Equivalent
- FUBU
- For Us, By Us
- GE
- General Electric
- GEICO
- Government Employees Insurance Company
- GM
- General Motors or General Mills
- GNC
- General Nutrition Centers
- HP
- Hewlett Packard
- IBC
- Independent Breweries Company (original manufacturer of IBC Root Beer)
- IBD
- Investors Business Daily
- IBM
- International Business Machines Corporation
- ILM
- Industrial Light and Magic
- IMR
- Information Management Research
- ING
- Internationale Nederlanden Group (a financial company)
- IREA
- Intermountain Rural Electric Association
- JC Penney's
- James Cash Penney
- JOA
- Joint Operating Agreement (example: the relationship between The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News)
- JVC
- Japan's Victor Company
- KB
- Kaybee Toys OR Kaufmann Broad (home builder)
- KFC
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
- KPI
- Key Performance Indicator
- KPMG
- Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm)
- LLC
- Limited Liability Company
- LLP
- Limited Liability Partnership
- MCI
- Microwave Communications Incorporated
- MOH
- Message/Music On Hold
- MSI
- Multiple Streams of Income
- MSN
- Microsoft Network
- MSRP
- Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
- MVI
- Mini Vacations Incorporated
- NBB
- New Belgium Brewery
- NCOA
- National Change of Address (List)
- NDA
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- NIB
- New In the Box
- NSA
- National Safety Associates
- OPM
- Other People's Money
- OPR
- Other People's Resources
- OPT
- Other People's Time
- P&G
- Proctor and Gamble
- PBGC
- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
- PE
- Printer Error (a publishing term)
- PL
- Profit and Loss
- PO
- Purchase Order
- POP
- Point of Purchase
- PT
- Part Time
- QA
- Quality Assurance
- QAI
- Quality Assurance International
- QC
- Quality Control
- QSC
- Quality, Service, Cleanliness (Ray Kroc's motto for McDonald's)
- REI
- Recreational Equipment, Inc
- RFP
- Request for Proposal
- SBC
- Southwestern Bell Corporation
- SBI
- Site Build It! (software for building web sites)
- SFI
- Six-Figure Income
- SKU
- Stock Keeping Unit
- SM
- Service Mark
- SOHO
- Small Office, Home Office
- SOS
- Switched On Schoolhouse
- SYSTEM
- Save Your Self Time, Energy, and Money (as reported by www.just15minutes.com)
- TCBY
- The Country's Best Yogurt (originally This Can't Be Yogurt)
- TM
- Trademark
- TSR
- Tactical Studies Rules (company that produces Dungeons & Dragons)
- UMB
- United Missouri Bank
- UPS
- United Parcel Service
- USAA
- United Services Automobile Association
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