Author Archives: David Terrell

Atom Feed

Posted on December 29, 2005 by David Terrell

I’ve switched my atom feed from atom 0.3 to atom 1.0. A few things don’t support atom 1.0 yet (google.com/ig, I’m looking at you!) so you can use meat.net/wp-atom03.php to get an atom 0.3 feed.

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Enemies List

Posted on December 12, 2005 by David Terrell

Why does Thinkgeek hate me so?

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Happy First Day Of December

Posted on December 1, 2005 by David Terrell

And how better to start the month than with a little poetry… Hello mailman my old friend, I see it’s the first again. And my mailing list passwords were written on the studio wall Email ‘em all It’s the sound… … Continue reading →

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Get Error Message from HRESULT

Posted on November 28, 2005 by David Terrell

Need to look up the error string for an HRESULT code? Here’s some code to do so. #include <comdef.h> CString GetMsgForHresult(HRESULT hr) { CString cs; CString msg = _com_error(hr).ErrorMessage(); cs.Format(_T(“Error 0x%08x: %s”), hr, msg); return cs; }

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PHP Debugging Tip

Posted on November 16, 2005 by David Terrell

Page not loading right? Try putting this at the top inside a <?php block… print_r( $_REQUEST); I was having a problem where http://meat.net/2005/11/xml-js-freeze/ was coming up blank. Turns out the following regexp is at fault: RewriteRule ^(.+).xml /index.php?feed=$1 [QSA,L] I’ve … Continue reading →

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Bill O'Reilly's Enemies List

Posted on November 15, 2005 by David Terrell

I can only hope this is enough to get on it…

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microsoft XML DOMDocument and javascript error

Posted on November 15, 2005 by David Terrell

I’m encountering a weird error where an embedded copy of IE is failing to load XML properly. Here’s the best approximation I have of what we’re doing:

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Target Boycott

Posted on November 14, 2005 by David Terrell

I’ve just sent this message to Target customer service, regarding their decision to allow pharmacists to refuse to fill legal Plan B prescriptions: I’m a frequent shopper at the Evanston Target near my house. Until and unless your current Plan … Continue reading →

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Don't trust John Lott

Posted on November 8, 2005 by David Terrell

Tim Lambert explains why not to trust John Lott.

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Baseball and SQL

Posted on November 2, 2005 by David Terrell

Two great tastes that go great together. One of the greatest things ever is the Lanham Baseball Database. It’s a database of all baseball statistics since 1871, suitable for random SQL queries. Not quite pitch by pitch, but season by … Continue reading →

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