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Keeping It Simple

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:22:04 +0000

I’ve been working on a site for a friend but ran into some trouble with the image slider. So I searched for an answer via Google. And searched. And clicked. And searched. And read. And read.

And ran into dead end after dead end.

Eventually I noticed there was a recurring comment regarding problems with the Photoria theme’s slider, perhaps the timthumb.php file is bad. ¹ So I searched again for a solution to this more specific problem. On Google. And searched. And clicked. And, well you get the drift.

I finally stopped and thought for just a second about the problem I was trying to solve: the slider in a WordPress site wasn’t working, and it might have something to do with timthumb.php. Hey, I thought, maybe there’s a WordPress-specific answer in their forums? What a great idea; I’ll look there.

Viola: Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner

It’s a beautiful little plugin – if it finds a vulnerability², it offers to automatically upgrade the code. Piece of cake. 30 minutes later.

I mean, of course!
Which, in this case, it did.

This does not compute

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:26:12 +0000

I have nothing against either of these acts¹, but really?

In fact, I am a HUGE Van Halen fan

Sometimes You Just Don’t Know…

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:14:04 +0000

Sometimes you’re the windshield
Sometimes you’re the bug

And sometimes, there’s just no telling.

File Under: I like This Kind of Email

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:14:43 +0000

Insanity Day One – The Fit Test

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:53:12 +0000

“This shit is bananas, yo!” And it really is. I did the Insanity fit test today, which is only about 30 minutes worth of work, but it hurt. And I am tired. And a bit dizzy. This too shall pass.

I take the test again in two weeks to measure (hopefully) my improvement.

Being a Christian is supposed to be a simple matter

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:30:19 +0000

So, too, is being an American. At least at the heart of it. Mark Kelly delivers a simple, elegant, and forceful statement about what it means to be a Christian and an American. Also featuring Stephen Colbert, so that’s all good.

And So, We Start Over Again

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:25:48 +0000

I took time out to write to my old friend
I walked across that burning bridge
Mailed my letter off to Dallas, but
Her reply came from Anchorage, Alaska

And she said: Hey [John], it’s about time you wrote…

It has been years. Years. Much has changed, even more has not. But I think it’s time for an overhaul. A reboot.

Now.

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:17:12 +0000

I think it’s every human’s job to inspire others, to feed one another’s senses. Inspiration begets inspiration times infinity. Imagine if the person that was inspired to create the phonograph didn’t share it with the world.

Jay-Z. (via)

more on the WordPress Blackberry app

John — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Still playing around with the WordPress Blackberry app… Its a very slimmed-down UI, which makes complete sense, I just wish linking was easier. When I tried to insert a link in the previous post, I meed with it a bit and then gave up. Today, I tried old-school mark-up (!) and thank God the app recognized what I wanted before I slaughtered the HTML.

So, this is a link. Precious, I know.

John — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:18:28 +0000

Sweet – How to take apart your Blackberry Curve. The boys cracked the faceplate on Mary Reed’s almost a year ago, and since then I had one go bad on me at work, so have some spare parts available. Now all I need is a t6.