There appears to be a bug in iTunes 8.1 (50) that I haven’t seen reported anywhere on the net.
If you go to Podcast and have a column that shows the description field, there should be a little (i) button to show more info. Clicking on that button pops up the description in a window so [...]

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I was asked recently whether the Popupper plugin for Wordpress works when mousing over an image. I tried it to see, if I had managed to write the code good enough for it to “just work” out of the box. Sadly no, the highlighted image disappeared when I tried it out. That’s a bug for [...]

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My Powerbook G4 laptop is slowly dying. I bought it refurbished in 2005 and it is now really starting to show its age. The current list of ailments are:

One of the two memory slots does not work. Might as well stick gum in the socket, it’s gone.
Part of the keyboard backlight doesn’t light up. Good [...]

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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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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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I’ve just finished building a new plugin for Wordpress named Blibahblubah. This is a plugin that allows you to customize effects that occur when you mouse over the tag cloud. I wrote an user guide for the plugin here.

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I’m an ex-Windows user who works primarily on a Mac these days. I recently needed to go back to my Windows PC and debug javascript from IE7, it is bizarre how hard it is to get to actual useful debugging information. You are supposed to dive down through Internet Options -> Advanced and then set Disable Script [...]

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