If you are a php web developer, I’m sure you’re familiar with the usage of phpmyadmin. For those who is unfamiliar, phpmyadmin is a web tool that give a graphical user interface for the mysql database. Let’s just say it makes life easier on the web developers.

So as a any good developer should do, they should always back up the database in case anything horrible happens to the server. This is easy to accomplish using the export function in phpmyadmin. Now if your database has less than 16mb of data, importing that backed up information is simple through phpmyadmin. But what do you do when you have gigs of data to import? You definitely cannot use phpmyadmin to accomplish this as it will warn you of the size limit. In this article I’ll give a quick solution to this problem by using a mysql bulk upload, so lets start from the beginning.

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I saw this video a few days ago, and I cringe when I see it. This is like a photographers worst nightmare happening in real life. I feel so sorry for this guy. If you don’t know what I’m jibber jabbering about then please take a quick look at the video.

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Graduation was coming up for Heidy Rodriguez, and she wanted to prepare some invitations with a nice graduation portrait of herself. Heidy had asked us about taking some photographs of her. This was actually the first time we had taken pictures of just one person, usually we’d be taking pictures of couples, or a family. So we had researched a lot of female poses to get inspiration for the project. We also thought it would be a good idea to get her in a 1930’s era style at a train station. Of course, because she was graduating we felt that a train station represented her new journey in life. I know, it’s really cliche, but it’s still a very creative and thoughtful cliche. Afterwords, we felt that her graduation portraits were some of the best work we’ve done.

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For those of you who don’t know me, or for those who know me but you feel too good to talk to me. First off screw you, and second off I’ve been a fan of Jackie Chan ever since the Barbara Walters interview of him back before Rumble in the Bronx was released. He was unlike any other celebrity and his bigger than life persona was only matched by his humility. I wasn’t only a fan of Jackie Chan, I wanted to be Jackie Chan. I remember going to my friends place and choreographing fight scenes, and practicing falls on my bed. I was a stuntman in the making, unfortunately I busted my knees which ended my short lived career as the next Jackie Chan.

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On Memorial day someone asked us to do their graduation pictures but they never showed up. Unfortunately he texted us that he wasn’t showing up, but since we aren’t able to receive text messages we didn’t get it. So of course after setting up our studio and waiting all day, we finally realized that he wasn’t going to come and it would be a waste to just bring down the studio. That is when we decided to have some fun, and start working on the best couple picture in the world.

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Lately I’ve been encountering funny things online, and I feel that due to our current economic crisis with housing this feels appropriate. I guess now a days real estate agents will say anything to get a sale. Or maybe this particular agents had something else on her mind. Either way this is a major FAIL!!!! Did I get you to be curiosity media? well read the newspaper ad for more detail.

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About a few months ago, the Director of E-commerce from Michael Stars was preparing for a interview by Internet Retailers. Internet Retailers requested a head shot that they could place in their magazine along with the interview. As he already has a relationship with Curiosity Media, he wanted us to take the pictures. So we came into the office, scouted out a good location and started our mini photo shoot. It only took a few minutes, but the real work was in the post processing to really bring out the image. So this week the issue from Internet Retailers finally comes out, and we were pleasantly surprised that our head shot of Mike made all the other head shots look like turd. In Curiosity Media, we never forget that with great power comes great responsibility to make our competition look like turd.

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About 8 or 7 years ago, I remember buying the game called Samba de Amigo for the Dreamcast. Being a poor college student, I opted not to buy the official Maracas. Instead I searched online for an off market brand from China. When they finally came in the mail I quickly ripped open the packaging in anticipation. I then read the instructions on the box which went like this:

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This has nothing to do with photography or web development, but I just had to share this. This is the new workout machine called Shake Weight which apparently uses the inertia of the weights to give you sculpted and defined muscles. I don’t know about you, but doesn’t the Shake Weight remind you of something? Watch the video to find out.

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