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Week in review

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We got back from our trip to mass. on Tuesday. The trip was like our normal trips, some fighting, some fun, more uncomfortable than anything really. We had Aaron’s birthday party on sunday, in mass. He had a lot of fun and got quite a few gifts. We had to mail ourselves a box full [...]

Holy sheep shit! I just fixed a known (to me) bug in the vox-crossposter WP plugin I wrote a LONG time ago. All I changed was the character encoding from $email_headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1′.”\r\n”; to $email_headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8′.”\r\n”; If you look at the second “known bugs” list at http://www.acedanger.com/vox-crossposter, you will see [...]

I’ve been trying to make use of the Shared Items in Google Reader and show them on my blog. I’ve tried a couple of different RSS widgets without success, until this morning. I found a widget that will display the feed correctly. It is called Google Reader widget and was written by James Wilson. The [...]

So I decided that I would attempt to use the OpenSocial API from Google. This is not turning out to be a simple task… I thought I would just be able to create a form, ask for some info, send a POST to some doctored-up URI to some API and then parse the response. Nope. [...]

Insomnia

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Meri and I were in bed, getting ready to fall asleep and then she started talking about work and how she didn’t want to go back tomorrow. That got me talking (and thinking) about my job. Then I started bitching…and bitching and bitching and bitching. So now, about 2 hours later (yeah, we go to [...]

My plugin was in a write up about WordPress plugins on the blog Mashable.  Here is a link to the entry: http://mashable.com/2007/08/02/wordpress-readers/.   How cool is that?! I found it by looking through some of the incoming links to my blog.  I clicked on a link from an Asian site and saw a link to Mashable.com.  [...]

New projects

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Long time no post! Well things have been busy here at work!  The LANSA projects are wrapping up for me: the version 2 of the Gradebook, written in LANSA with heavy use of AJAX (and JavaScript) and CSS, has been handed off to the consultants we have been using since the project began; I re-wrote [...]

First and foremost, I want to thank David Chartier for the write-up he completed for the DownloadSquad regarding my WordPress plugin, the Vox Crossposter. I didn’t think the plugin was that big of a deal until users started to email me, asking me for help installing the plugin. I received a lot of positive feedback [...]

Dorkiest Tattoo

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I LOL’d. Image courtesy of http://gaygamer.net/2007/03/worlds_dorkiest_and_worst_tatt_1.html