Chris Johnson, the rookie RB from the Tennessee Titans is talented (you can’t deny that) but he is also a unprofessional, showboating ass (you can’t deny that either). This guy takes showboating to a new level. People get upset about Terrell Owens or Ocho Cinco showboating, those guys don’t bother me- they wait until they [...]

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I’m trying to go through the steps needed to internationalize (i18n) my wordpress plugins. So far I’ve hit alot of stumbling blocks:

the __() PHP function keeps giving me the error ”[error] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function __()” even though I have called load_plugin_textdomain(). From looking at other plugins, I don’t see any require_onces/includes that I [...]

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This blog has a new title. My wife has informed that she thinks the new title is not as lame as the previous one. So, I fully expect readership to double or triple.

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My wife informed me that my current blog title, ripples are reflections, is lame. Dang. For the record, I took that roughly from the Radiohead song Reckoner, which is pretty amazing in my opinion. Too bad the awesomeness of the song didn’t rub off on my blog title…
Also, the title was supposed to be ṛippleṡ ạrė [...]

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I posted here about how Verizon’s recent PBL policies affected my blog. Here is how I editted Wordpress 2.6.5 to use Verizon’s own SMTP server. Note that emails can still appear to come from whatever address I want (like a GMail account).
./wp-includes/pluggable.php

@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
}
// Set to use PHP’s mail()
- [...]

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At some point in the last week, Verizon has listed all of its residential IP address with spamhaus.org in their Policy Block List. This means that any server running at a residence can no longer send out email from an internal SMTP server. Like say… the FreeBSD Server in my basement that hosts this blog. I used [...]

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If you haven’t heard of Girl Talk until now… then you’re welcome. This is one of the best musical acts to come out of Pittsburgh in a long time. Girl Talk is a essentially one guy (Gregg Gillis) and his laptop, that mix hip-hop, eighties classics, grunge hits, and pop songs into something entirely new. I don’t [...]

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 Gas prices in Western Pennsylvania are now under $2.00 for a gallon of regular. Not sure when the last time that happened was, but it feels like it has been a while.

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