Whenever I think of midnight, I think of AC DC and the song Hells Bells. The bong … bong … bong … of midnight and the beginning that song resonates here.

Thanks to JaYMan from Netpond who recently sponsored me in the Blogathon 2003 …

I tell you, this final 6 hours has been what I’ve been worried about so please consider dumping some coins out of those piggy banks and sponsoring me for the ASACP cause. As you can see from the picture here, I could probably use a nap … but not! Denied!

Whew! It’s burning up in here now that I turned on the 500 watt halogen. If I fall asleep, this place will burn down … but the flipside is you can actually see what’s going on in the room now in the webcam

Now since this has sort of become the Kara hour as she’s having a late dinner with me I thought I would share some pleasant memories I have of us together.

- that night we spent together Canada for the Halloween Party where my brother in law was drinking out of the bar-noculars. 4th of July in October. Only in Canada! - bowling! I know that some folks make fun of this “sport” but didn’t we used to just kick it and have the greatest time doing that? Why did we stop? I know, I know … work! We should get in another league. - going to the used book store and picking out books to read together. I don’t know why I stopped reading fiction like I used to. Been a long time since I’ve tore into a good fiction novel and it was extra special when we read together. - laying on the couch watching movies together
Of course I have lots of memories of your smile. Your smile means everything is great

This blog entry is for my lovely wife Kara for whom without her, well, I would be just a geek with a keyboard. With her I’m still a geek with a keyboard, but that’s another story.

Kara used to work for me at KFC when I was 18. I was an assistant manager there for a brief period while I was helping my mom out who was pregnant with my twin brother and sister. Kara was a model employee and the store manager got really mad at me when he found out that I was dating her. I guess the guy who worked there before me was partying with all the help, but I was just interested in one girl — Kara.

She says she always enjoyed it when I wrote things to her and that as we’ve gotten older and grown in our relationship I don’t write things as much any more. This will be our 14th anniversary this September and it was important to me in this 24 hour Blogathon to reflect on and thank kara for giving me a wonderful family and making me whole. We have three darling, healthy boys. So thank you, Kara, I love you with all my heart and can’t think of anybody else I’d rather grow old with than you.

14 entries, 7 1/2 hours, left to go … we’re now inching into graveyard hours!

I’ve talked about this on my radio show several times before but I’m kind of confused about the term: amateur as it relates to adult sites. If we go by the dictionary term and amateur is as follows:

1. A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.
   
2. Sports. An athlete who has never accepted money, or who accepts money under restrictions specified by a regulatory body, for participating in a competition.
   
3. One lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art.

I suppose under item #3 a full-time amateur could fall. I don’t know though about those who go out and get fake boobs and then pro photographers to do everything if they still truly fall under the classification of amateur. I’m thinking that amateur is like the part time husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend, the single mom, etc. It’s been something that makes me go hmm. You?

Gina brings up an interesting acoustic cover of November Rain by Guns ’N Roses at crushing krisis. Peter is scheduled to come onto the radio show at 4am PST / 7am ET, and it is possible we’ll hear something live from him then!

Speaking of Guns ‘N Roses? What exactly happened to them? They came out with an incredible first album, then took forever to follow it up. And when they released a follow-up it was a 2 CD set, and then they broke up. AXL was doing a few shows with not the original band but him and Duff, I think. Chinese Democracy, the new CD, has been in the coming soon mode for some time. Smells like a possible Van Halen situation here.

And since it is 10pm, it is time for me to change my shirt again! 8 hours ago I changed from Miami Vice mode to casino Club Aladdin. Now it’s time for my R.E.O Speedwagon Concert shirt. Pictures at eleven (I’ve always wanted to use that cliche’)

I’m seeing hits in the referrers from <a href=”http://www.netpond.com”>Netpond</a> also, so welcome to the blogathon for ASACP Netpond!

Todd, thank you for the donation from wishing.com, mon! Much respect! Todd was one of the first guests on the Script School radio show, way back on show #3 on Friday June 23, 2000 and we talked then about the future of teledildonics.

I hope those that are up at 4am PST will be calling in to the radio show to reminisce about the adult industry. You know who you all are. So much has happened, but this is an opportunity to show folks that there are a lot of GOOD folks in the adult business. It’s not just thugs and crooks and the sterotypes that exist out there. We can make a difference!

You can sponsor me here in this 24 hour blogathon and all donations will go directly to ASACP I know I’m burning the midnight oil for a great cause!

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Hope you folks stopping by will leave some comments and say hello ;) We’ll be having a live radio show streaming at 4am PST / 7 am (thanks Carrie) EST … which is like 7 hours from this weblog entry. The name of the show: The Final Countdown! Come back here for the stream URL.

You can still pledge and all proceeds go directly to ASACP (Adult Sites Against Child Pornography). Let’s raise our voices and let them know in mainstream loud and clear that we don’t stand for that bullshit treatment of children.

I totally melted down Pivot when I added the PHP code in my last entry. I went back in and made it safe for code the way I was doing it. It is kind of ironic that I was talking about sanitizing data and I was able to pass data to the blog script IDE and break it down LOL. Those damn admins!

Thank you to Carrie who just pledged to the cause: ASACP. You can sponsor me still in so break open the piggy. I’ll show you my green elephant/piggy later on … really, I will … if you want

Here is the form cleansing code described in my last entry.  Here’s a PHP function I whipped up to scan the player name field:

function checkPlayer($in) {
  if(strlen($in) < 3) {
    errorForm(”player name must be at least 3 characters ($in)”);
  }
  if(strlen($in) > 15) {
    errorForm(’player name must be between 3 and 15 alphanumeric characters. Your submitted name is greater than 15 characters’);
  }
  if(!ereg(”^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$”, $in)) {
    // oops!
    errorForm(’player name must be between 3 and 15 alphanumeric characters. Your submitted name contained illegal characters’);
   }
}

In my next interactive blogging game entry, it is cookie and file writing time.

Allow me to bitch and moan about how it sucks having to treat every piece of user input like it’s garbage or a malicious hack, but if you don’t then you will have all kinds of coding problems.

Fortunately there are some built-in PHP functions that help you deal with cleansing user form input like: htmlspecialchars, htmlentities

In the three fields I’m using, I just want to allow specifc data (see last entry screenshot).

Player Name - alphanumeric only, 15 characters max
Password - alphanumeric only, 10 characters max
E-Mail Address - valid email address

I’m going to amend the password to be a minimum of 6 characters. Through the use of the functions strlen (get the length of a string) and some basic regular expression handiwork I’m going to force this user input checking. I know that some folks use JavaScript to do this, but you still have to check form input on the server side. I’m going to go work up this code. I’ll share in my next blog entry.