The last movie the Netflix gods delivered unto me was, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut. I moved it to the top of our queue after catching Superman – The Movie on HD Movies, twice. I’ll be the first to admit that I can’t really review these movies super-critically. When the movie came out originally […]
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Not exactly up to the minute news here, where did the last three weeks go and I’ve left my blog sadly unattended. The biggest news here is that I’m a real honest-to-goodness uncle. Patty had a baby boy ten days ago, Ian Christopher. He’s cute, and sounds like he cries a lot. They’re also lucky
Cal Evans wrote a straightforward and excellent tutorial on how to to use Zend_Auth and its OpenID adapter to authenticate users today. I was not only impressed by the tutorial itself, and I liked how he had code up front and so well commented, but also by how easy it was to implement the code
This is primarily a reminder for myself, since I have a hard time finding this when I need it. Use this to restrict access to a site by IP address and display a friendly message to users when doing an upgrade or maintenance. <LIMIT GET POST >Order Deny,AllowDeny from AllAllow from 192.168.0.1</LIMIT>ErrorDocument 403 "Site Upgrades,
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You learn something new everyday. On SoccerBlogs.net, I’ve always tracked click thrus to gauge which posts represent active stories. Previously, I used to redirect clicks through my own url and then redirect to the final destination. This was a little slower for users, and I think its not super kosher from google’s point of view.
Oh yeah baby – check out who’s on the first page of google when you search for "NPR Fair Game"!
I’ve updated SoccerBlogs, which has been requriing some of my attention for a while now. The obvious change is a much better design, at least as far as my skills go. I also changed how I was linking to external posts and now use a simple ajax request to count click-thrus, instead of more cumbersome,
Once I became a US Citizen, I in now way missed having to deal with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or whatever it is called now that its in the Department of Homeland Security. In my mind, its still the paragon of bearocratic time wasting and horrendous customer service, order-of-magnitude worse than dealing with the
Posted here because I couldn’t do a good job explaining this at dinner last night: Why is competition between health insurance companies useful? This is not the world we live in, but it is the world we should aim for and I am more than willing to consider how government might get us there. (Mandating
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Next Up for the Democrats: Civil War It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists. As the columnist Gregory Rodriguez pointed out in The Los Angeles Times, all three black