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… of mailman.

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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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Do you know me? (Chris Stillson)

Posted on November 23, 2005 by Chris Stillson

Dave is letting me post to meatspace because he’s a standup guy, because I asked him, and because I took that bullet for him when that one drug deal went south….

Anyway, if you know me and want to say hi, I would really love it. I’m living in San Francisco. Still.

You can reach me at stillson at gmail dot com

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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 fixed the feed director plugin, you can see my patched version at here.

Troubleshooting tip comes courtesy of Dr. Dave, also known as the evil genius behind Spam Karma. All hail IRC. :)

Update: I forgot to restore the symlink when I upgraded wordpress to 2.0 and redid my plugins dir from scratch. Fixed now.

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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…

Continue reading →

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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 B stance allowing pharmacists to
basically refuse to carry out their jobs based on one single isolated
belief, I will not be shopping at your store. It’s unfortunate too,
I was hoping to pick up one of your kitchen workspaces this weekend
in time for Thanksgiving. I guess I’ll be sending my business to the
local Costco.

I wonder if you would be willing to hire a Christian Scientist as
a pharmacist, then allow them to refuse to fill any prescription
at all based on religious principles? If not, I wonder how these
cases differ. I find your reading of Title VII completely wrongheaded,
and I note only that your reading of it only makes sense if you
feel like kowtowing to a noisy but small group of political activists
who oppose almost all women’s rights.

I’ve learned to expect better from Target as a company. I certainly
avoid Wal-Mart and have preferred your store in the past. I look
forward to being able to do so again. I will be awaiting your
response with great interest.

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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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