ace’s blog

We got back from our trip to mass. on Tuesday. The trip was like our
normal trips, some fighting, some fun, more uncomfortable than anything
really. We had Aaron’s birthday party on sunday, in mass. He had a lot
of fun and got quite a few gifts. We had to mail ourselves a box full of presents even [...]

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Of course I mean my interest in my current job.  It seems I can’t stand to stay at a place for over a year (check my linkedin.com profile).  There are a few LANSA contracts in central Florida but with the economy behaving the way it is, I think I’m too nervous to take that step [...]

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Holy sheep shit! I just fixed a known (to me) bug in the vox-crossposter WP plugin I wrote a LONG time ago.
All I changed was the character encoding from
$email_headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1′.”\r\n”;
to
$email_headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8′.”\r\n”;
If you look at the second “known bugs” list at http://www.acedanger.com/vox-crossposter, you will see exactly what I changed. [...]

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I’ve been trying to make use of the Shared Items in Google Reader and show them on my blog. I’ve tried a couple of different RSS widgets without success, until this morning.
I found a widget that will display the feed correctly. It is called Google Reader widget and was written by James Wilson.
The problem with [...]

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So I decided that I would attempt to use the OpenSocial API from Google.
This is not turning out to be a simple task…
I thought I would just be able to create a form, ask for some info, send a POST to some doctored-up URI to some API and then parse the response. Nope. There seems [...]

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