Monthly Archives: March 2009

Spaghetti Os From Amazon

Posted on Mon 30 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

The answer is yes, you can order Spaghetti Os from Amazon.com. No, I haven’t ordered any yet. But yes, I am tempted to. There’s just something curious about ordering one of my favorite childhood lunch items from Amazon instead of … Continue reading →

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Presidents That Have Reduced The Federal Debt

Posted on Thu 26 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Updates 6 Mar 2009 @ 8:05pm : History Of The Federal Debt – I found data on the yearly federal debt amount from 1791 through present day Frontline recently had an episode called Ten Trillion and Counting, about the federal … Continue reading →

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Slow Loading RSD URLs In WordPress

Posted on Mon 23 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

A common mechanism for XML-RPC clients to find out information about your WordPress blog is to look for the Really Simple Discovery (RSD) URL. The RSD contains information about the available APIs that WordPress supports. A typical discovery process would … Continue reading →

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WordPress & libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin

Posted on Tue 17 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Despite the libxml2 problems having been solved by the release of PHP 5.2.9 and libxml2 2.7.3 there are still hosts out there who refuse to update their known to be broken setup. This really bummed me out, I didn’t want … Continue reading →

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Utah WordPress Meetup

Posted on Mon 16 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Jake Spurlock is hosting a Utah WordPress Meetup at his place this Wednesday. Come hang out and talk WordPress. RSVP at Upcoming.

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The Perfect Ending For The New 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' Movie

Posted on Fri 13 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Sarah and I were talking about some of the movies that are coming out this summer, including G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Although G.I. Joe has a long history, my only memories were of the cartoon in the mid-80s. … Continue reading →

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Will Norris On Authentication In WordPress 2.8

Posted on Wed 11 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Will Norris: Authentication in WordPress 2.8 Will has been working on OAuth for WordPress and along the way re-shaped the the authentication flow. This was needed to support things like XML-RPC requests authenticated only via OAuth, that have empty username/password … Continue reading →

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Searching For 'Search Engine' On Google

Posted on Tue 10 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Have you ever tried searching for search engine on Google? I was surprised by the results (as of today): AltaVista Dogpile Yahoo! Search Ask Lycos Wikipedia entry on ‘Search Engines’ Webcrawler SearchEngineWatch.com Live.com Search Engine Colossus (had never heard of … Continue reading →

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Conclusion of libxml2 Issues – Use PHP 5.2.9 & libxml2 2.7.3

Posted on Wed 4 Mar 2009 by Joseph Scott

Updates 17 Mar 2009 @ 3:05pm : WordPress & libxml2 Episode IV: A New Plugin With the release of PHP 5.2.9 all of the pieces are available to solve the XML bracket stripping puzzle. To make it perfectly clear, you … Continue reading →

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