I renewed two of my domain names today: Caffeine-Junkie.com and User-Manual.net.  I wasn’t sure if I should keep my old radio show’s domain, User-Manual.net, as it’s been defunct for over a year now.  A while back, my old host got hacked (not through any of my web apps, but the server itself) and the hackers changed the content of any file with index in the name to be their group slogan and a short message about them bragging.  Ugh.  My host didn’t back any files up, and their best remedy was to replace all “infected” files with the default Apache welcome message.  Luckily I had most of my domain names backed up somewhere, but since I did so much custom work on User-Manual, I couldn’t find any trace of a working backup.  Since then, the site has been “down for maintenance.”

I was really considering letting it go, but I just felt that maybe that domain name might come to good use one day instead of being turned into a useless sponsored listing portal.  Even though it’s been three years since I ran the User-Manual show on WHRT, I still remember the huge AIM virus outbreak and the only real content on my site was a simple tutorial on how to remove it.  Interestingly enough, I later added some flash games just for kicks and the huge success of these spawned my senior project SHUGamer.com.

On an additional side-note, SHUGamer.com is apparently no more.  The server was hosted at my project partner’s house and was accidentally disconnected when Cablevision came to fix an issue with the television.  Since then (a month ago) he has not turned it back on, dispite my requests.  I do have some people asking me if the site will return (as they played quite often), but it is unlikely from the looks of it.

RIP 2007-2009 SHUGamer.com

Continuing with yesterday’s useful PHP function, I present a function to convert a normal number to an ordinal number.  This is extremely simple and is great for ranking users or numbers dynamically. (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)

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