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iPhone, Apple Store thoughts

I spent some time in the Apple Store at the Pentagon City mall in Virginia yesterday, and I played with the iPhone for about 20 minutes before I became absolutely sick of it. So it didn’t surprise me to read iPhone sucks buy Blackberry stock (via Scoble). I found the touch screen keyboard on the… Continue reading iPhone, Apple Store thoughts

My Link Blogs

Finally have a bunch of my link blogs posted. A little explanation, though. First, this is an OPML file, generated by NewsGator, filtered through sed, and displayed by Optimal. Second, I maintain these link blogs in FeedDemon and my own aggregator built on the NewsGator API. As of the latest version (ver. 2.5), FeedDemon automatically… Continue reading My Link Blogs

Juice-y Python

I use Juice to manage my podcasts. But it doesn’t do everything I need, and it’s a little buggy, and I want to learn Python anyway. So I decided to download the latest source code and see if I could fix some of the bugs I’ve noticed and figure out how to extend it to… Continue reading Juice-y Python

Quick WordPress Upgrading

Note to self: Grab a unified diff of the new version versus the old version: svn diff -r HEAD –old http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/<old_version> \ –new http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/<new_version> Apply the changes to the current installation: patch -d <path_to_wp_install> -u -i <patchfile>

Leash and Feedparser

Maybe I’ll write up something a little more formal in the future. For now, I just want to publish this in case it’s useful to someone. Les Orchard posted a blurb that indicated that he was looking for a PHP class to perform HTTP requests with conditional GET support. Well, a while ago I was… Continue reading Leash and Feedparser

WordPress and JavaScript Hijacking

I read this paper that Bruce Schneier linked to regarding JavaScript hijacking. Seems to me that WordPress plugin developers who piggyback on WordPress’s builtin security features shouldn’t have anything to worry about. Judging from what little buzz there was, I think that’s probably true, but I’m interested in others’ thoughts.

Yikes! WordPress Hacked!

The WordPress crew have announced that the WordPress 2.1.1 download got cracked by an unnamed attacker who injected some code that would allow remote code execution. I’m glad I haven’t upgraded!

Done

I’m remapped. That was like a flashback to elementary school, getting called out by the teacher in front of the whole class! 😳 Thanks, Dave.

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