Could Not Open Socket reCAPTCHA Error

The weirdest thing happened with Recaptcha, when I moved from shared hosting to a VPS with PHP 5.3. I started to get could not open socket error on one of my sites, I searched and searched all over but couldn’t find the answer. What was even more odd was that another site that I had […]

EPISODE 122 “Flight”

Airdate: 2006-05-15 The prison alarm screams and the flood lights fill the yard. The guards have Manche face down and he’s begging for his life. C.O. JJ yells into his walkie-talkie, “We got a 1098! Inmates over the wall!” JJ wraps his arm around Manche’s thick neck and demands to know who else was involved. […]

Kat Von D’s favorite celebrity tattoos

In more than a decade as a professional tattoo artist, “LA Ink’s” Kat Von D has amassed a devout following of hundreds of thousands of fans. In addition, many celebrities, athletes, and entertainers seek her services. Of all the tattoos she’s done for her celeb clientele, there’s a handful that she calls her favorites. Click […]

Sopranos Behind The Scenes

Spotting locations in The Sopranos’ opening credits has become a sport for diehard fans–but for those of you who don’t get to Northern New Jersey as often as you’d like, here is a quick tour of some of the spots you see as Tony heads home each week… “The New Jersey Turnpike, at least the […]

Origin of the name “Black Friday”

Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the nineteenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1869. The earliest uses of “Black Friday” to mean the day after Thanksgiving come from or reference Philadelphia and refer to the heavy traffic on that day. The earliest […]

Saudi says deal reached on BlackBerry

Saudi Arabia and the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone have reached a deal on accessing users’ data that will avert a ban on the phone’s messenger service, a Saudi official said Saturday. The agreement, involving placing a BlackBerry server inside Saudi Arabia, would allow the government to monitor users’ messages and allay official fears the […]

10 Biggest Bankruptcies In U.S. History

Lehman Brothers Assets upon filing: $691 billion Date of filing: Sept. 15, 2008 Description: Investment bank What happened next: Within days of its filing, Lehman’s North American business was taken over by UK bank Barclays; Japan’s Nomura Holdings snagged its international operations. Washington Mutual Assets upon filing: $328 billion Date of filing: Sept. 26, 2008 […]