Derek Coward's Noise

Derek Coward’s Noise

  • Update to the Movies Have Never Seen List

    When I made my list about the ten movies I have never seen, I completely forgot about The Dark Knight Returns. I might have forgotten because while I think Nolan’s Memento is one of the best movies ever made, the rest of his filmography leaves me unimpressed.

  • Meme Challenge: Movies I Have Never Seen

    My good friend Keith Cunningham was challenged by his good friend Christian Kocinski to list ten movies he has never seen but should, “a mix of cultural touchstones and historically significant films. Stuff I need to see to be a part of the conversation.” I decided to get in on the fun and list MY…

  • MI State Rep Tim Bledsoe’s Protest of RTW

    While the Michigan Legislature was kneecapping the unions in the state with their “Right To Work” law, State Rep Tim Bledsoe made a statement to protest the passage of the bill. Tim Bledsoe represents the 1st District in Michigan, which contains some of the richest people in the state, and isn’t someone I would have…

  • I Thought It Was Funny

    My son Stephen was getting ready to wash the dishes, so he asked me “Where’s the sponge?” Without missing a beat, I responded “In a pineapple under the sea.” It took him a few seconds to get what I was talking about, but the confused look on his face was priceless. I love being a…

  • I Want An Ice Cream Sandwich

    I want an ice cream sandwich, but not just any ice cream sandwich. I had a great ice cream sandwich back in my freshman year of high school (1981). Most ice cream sandwiches have cake-like wafers, but this one had crunchy cookie style wafers. I’m not sure how they kept things from getting mushy or…

  • Things They Don’t Tell You About Working From Home

    There are a lot of benefits to working at home and I appreciate that my employer has given me the opportunity. However, one thing that no one ever tells you about working from home and telecommuting is that if you don’t start your car every day, or at least several times a week, then the…

  • Late Night/Early Morning Musings

    Do you think there’s a reality where the “I love you man.” dude hangs out with the Whazzup guys?

  • What’s Going On With Netflix?

    Netflix is acting weird. First they split their service and effectively doubled their prices with very little apparent thought to how their customers would react. When the reaction was fiercely negative, they explained that they were also going to split their business into two entities: Netflix, which would handle the streaming end, and Qwikster, which…

  • Another PHP/HTML question

    I think this is more of an HTML question, but I am also using PHP, so I decided to put it in the blog title. If I wanted to create a form connected to a database and wanted to display the contents of a drop down field, I would use something like: < option selected="selected"…

  • The PHP problem I am having

    I am trying to create a webpage that searches a MySQL database. I can write a simple page that can search on one of the fields. For example: SELECT * FROM table WHERE = $variable; What I need to do is figure out how to do the same thing but with more than one field…