Wind on the Moon

Seems like a lot of famous people have left us since my last post. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and just yesterday, Billy Mays. Well, Billy Mays wasn't as famous as the others, but I did see him on the Tonight Show just last week. It's weird, I didn't even know Michael Jackson was back in this country. At least he died in California, and it wasn't at the hand of someone trying to get famous (we hope).

There are a lot of polls out right now asking if he was the greatest pop star ever. Apparently there are still a lot of Elvis fans out there, because it's been 50/50 and 40/60 splits in most of the voting. At least we have the music and the videos. It seems like very talented or beautiful people always end up trading fame for a short life and a tragic ending.

This week I'm learning how to work with php sessions. You can use a session to keep track of who is logged into your web site and give them access to certain areas of the site. It isn't that complicated, you just have to keep track of a lot of information as you develop the log in scheme. I found a web site with some great php tutorials. If you have a basic understanding of php, the tutorials on this site should get you started. PhP/SQL driven web sites are great, they just take a lot more time to develop. I like finding easy to understand examples on the web, because if you're like me, finding the time and motivation to write code can sometimes be a challenge.