Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a huge fan of Apple hardware and enjoy using OS X. I love the sexy interface and actually embrace pressing 'Apple' + <Anykey> to do things. I've owned a Mac for quite a while. I even have a couple one-button ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This week seems to have been filled with ridiculous Javascript hacks.
I came up with this one. I'm sure you can figure out what it does.
function send_mail(body,subject) {
var mailwin = window.open("mailto:admin@example.com?subject="
+ subject + "&body=" + body);
mailwin.close();
}
I have to ...
Posted in Programming, Web | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
I just finished carving my Halloween jack '0 lantern and was uploading the pictures to Flickr when my friend Luke who just happened to be doing the same thing sent me a link to his pumpkins. Apparently he has done this before.
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Dr. Ron Paul Cured My Apathy
Originally uploaded by ronpaul2008
Maybe I'm just showing my age... If so it's probably for the better, but before now, I haven't been interested in politics much.
If I had voted in the previous presidential race it would have been for President Bush, but only ...
Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I was forced to drop VPSLink after it took them more than 12 hours to not restore my server image. I finally settled on Quantact and I'm far more pleased with the performace and my overall experience with their service. I just hope they work out for the ...
Posted in Linux, Web | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I managed to roll back my iPhone firmware from the infamous 1.1.1 version allowing me to put third party applications back on my phone. I changed the Flickr badge on my blog to link to my new Flickr feed that will be populated with regularly changing images taken on ...
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Monday, October 8th, 2007
I just got my Virtual Private Server (VPS) from VPSLink and spent a few hours trying to get things set up the way I wanted. (See previous post) Then I was trying to get on it to move my blog over and stuff and it just quit working, ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
I just signed up for a VPS (Virtual Private Server) account with VPSLink. I finally decided to get rid of my flaky DSL service and abandon my static IP's for a cheaper, faster connection through Cox Cable. The only problem with doing so is that my Blog and ...
Posted in Linux, Php | No Comments »
Monday, October 1st, 2007
I know what your thinking... "I thought OpenID made phishing worse!" With the current state of things this can be true. Any site can easily pose as an OpenID relier and then redirect you to a fake Identity provider that looks like yours. The good news is OpenID will ...
Posted in OpenID, Security | No Comments »