I know to say that Pakistan has been big friends with the US would be overstated, but we are "allies". Unfortunately our "ally" has been unable to even control a decent chunk of it's country (Waziristan), allowing Taliban to flow right into Afghanistan. On February 27, 2007 the top US intelligence official even said officially, that Bin Laden was in Pakistan.

If all that wasn't bad enough, not one but TWO stories have come out today that are quite startling. The first story is about an attack on US forces in Pakistan commited by the Taliban. When the story first came out, it was said 10-13 Pakistani soldiers were killed by US-Afghan forces, but in the recent several hours we found out a key piece of the puzzle missing. Here's a few quotes from a Washington Post article:

"Taliban militants apparently opened fire and were then joined by Pakistani military forces, setting off an hours-long battle. It is unclear what prompted the exchange of fire."

"We have inflicted heavy damages," Omar said. The Taliban spokesman said Islamist insurgents fought "side by side" with Pakistani soldiers against the Afghan forces during the operation."

The reason Pakistani soldiers and Taliban were killed in the border clash was because the Pakistani soldiers were fighting with the Taliban. Okay, so isolated incident, right? Wrong.

"Pakistani intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped train Taliban insurgents and have given them information about American troop movements in Afghanistan, said a report published Monday by a U.S. think tank."

It said NATO officials have uncovered several instances of Pakistani intelligence agents providing information to Taliban fighters, even "tipping off Taliban forces about the location and movement of Afghan and coalition forces, which undermined several U.S. and NATO anti-Taliban military operations."

The report said Pakistan's intelligence service and other government agencies provided Taliban and other insurgents with training at camps in Pakistan, as well as intelligence, financial assistance and help crossing the border."

These startling accusations were not from WorldNetDaily or some cookey website, but from the very reputable RAND - Source. Good ally, right?

I'm going to quote an article I wrote over @ Bengals Chatter about Chad Johnson. Check it out:

Last year a lot of people thought Chad Johnson was a big reason for the Bengals losing season, he wasn't. There was an incident with the Bengals playoff game in 2005, but I do believe Chad that he didn't throw a punch. However Chad Johnson's basically has been asking for a trade (without saying it) all off-season and I am tired of it.

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Using PHP for now several years, every so often you are walking along the PHP trail when you smack into a steel wall. Not that I expected the Zip feature in PHP to be "really easy", but it couldn't be that difficult, right? Well aside from some small hiccups for a while, it wasn't tough.

Let me step aside first and explain. I was working on AdaptCMS, for v1.1 I was upgrading the gallery feature. A sort by feature, a few extra templates to control the look and then the zip feature. A person clicks on download and it generates a zip you download with all the images in the gallery, in it.

So getting back to it, I was using the built-in PHP ZIP function. So I got it working and built into the admin panel, before I take a break from coding I figured I would upload and take a gander. Right away I get an error, long story short the built in ZIP function is either only for PHP 5.2 and up, or a lot of parts of the ZIP function only work in 5.2 up. (built-in)

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If you didn't pay attention me several times saying to stay tuned at PoliticalYard.com for updates you probably don't know that Political Yard has launched. News, articles, forums in one place with what I think is a pretty nice setup and to keep people interested I added two days after launch a rating script running off of Ajax, which interestingly works even on old browsers unlike most javascript.