Up to now, I’ve used an old plug-in to GraffitiCMS to serve up a set of sharing buttons on this blog. Old as in the code used to have (until I took it out) a link for Furl – remember that? No, I don’t either. […]
READ MOREI haven’t been too happy about the facilities for commenting in GraffitiCMS ever since I started using it. Great for minor feedback, but awful for pasting code when crafting an implementation detail as an example. Since StackOverflow uses MarkDown for its comments and I’ve grown used to that, I decided to experiment adding it to my blog here as well. […]
READ MOREI’ve been meaning to do a bit of housework on this site to clean up the CSS and to add a bit of interactivity. After all, I write a lot about JavaScript, so I might as well start adding some to my blog. […]
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photo © 2010 Bill Abbott | more info (via: Wylio)Long ago someone signed me up to get emails from this wacko right-winger. Her emails are unfailingly stupid/vapid, forwarded ad nauseam, written in deathless, breathless prose, and the all-caps multi-exclamation-marked topics are easily debunked by 5 seconds research on snopes.com. Consequently they are hilarious. […]
My wife sent me an email today about Spokeo.com. This is a site that aggregates public information on the internet about individuals and then sells it. The site allows you to remove yourself if you want to. (In essence, search for yourself, find the page, copy the URL, and then click on the Privacy link at the bottom of the page. They send you an email with a remove link.) I removed her because of her job, but I decided to see what they had on me. […]
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Just over 3 years ago, I wrote a post about my wife Donna prosecuting a particularly nasty case of child pornography. The defendant, Erik Rabes, was charged with five counts: sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, two felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child, and a misdemeanor count of sexual exploitation of a child. It was the first ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) case that made it to trial in Colorado (usually the defendants in these kinds of cases plea out early). To summarize, Donna did a fantastic job prosecuting him and the jury found him guilty on all counts. He got two concurrent ten year sentences for the sexual assault counts, two consecutive 12-year sentences for the felony exploitation counts, and a concurrent 24 month sentence for the misdemeanor. Total elapsed time: 34 years. […]
photo © 2009 Caitlin Childs | more info (via: Wylio)I was doing a bit of research to try and find some nuggets of information on URL rewriting, especially with regard to GoDaddy’s shared hosting (I run this website (and others) on GoDaddy). I found this article in Google’s cache but the original site (codebeater.com) has gone away (I presume the domain wasn’t renewed). The article was by CodeBeater’s admin. […]
So, last night I was working on my URL shortening website (jmbk.nl) and the application that generates the short URLs and that redirects existing ones to the actual URLs. And for some unknown reason, the redirections just weren’t working on the actual website. I’d get server errors (even “404-Not Found” server errors) and my redirection ASPX page just didn’t seem to get called. It was, to be polite, a mess. And, because it was late at night and I was tired I was flailing around trying stupid stuff to see what stuck and nothing would. […]
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photo © 2007 Beverly | more info(via: Wylio)
UPDATE (6-Feb-2017) Wylio still exists, but is now a paid subscription, plus in making it so they broke all their previous photo URLs. Having just spent a couple of hours redoing the markup for all the photos I've used, I do not recommend it at all any more. […]
A couple of months ago I finished an article for PCPlus about algorithms for solving Rubik’s Cube. It’ll appear in issue 298 in September 2010. […]
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