Having been a long time member of Blockbuster Total Access, think NetFlix with the added bonus of free in store rentals, I was unhappy to receive an email notifying me of the second price increase this year. When we initially signed up for Total Access, we were only paying $15.99/month for three movies at a time, with unlimited rentals per month. We also got a number of free rental coupons that we... [more]

During our Thanksgiving trip to Missouri, our trusty Canon A80 died. This camera was a wedding gift to us back in 2004 and has seen more miles than most shoes. After doing our research, we settled on the new Canon A650 IS. This camera is fairly new to the market and comes... [more]

I've started heavily developing some stuff for work using CakePHP 1.2. We decided to go with the beta version as it currently is because of a number of changes. One of the major changes that we needed was better integration with Oracle. The only issue with getting Oracle and CakePHP working nicely together is that in the default appconfigdatabase.php file, there is a missing value from the $default and $test arrays. var $default = array( 'driver' ... [more]