Monthly Archives: July 2011

Guess Yahoo doesn’t care about spam anymore

Posted on July 30th, 2011 by Ryan

When I get spam, and if I’ve got a few minutes to do so, I’ll usually look up the host and possibly registrar for the domain and forward to their abuse email addresses.Today I got a very obvious phishing attempt … Continue reading →

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SWFUpload, Chrome, and error 2038

Posted on July 30th, 2011 by Ryan

Started using SWFUpload for another web project of mine to handle uploads, and it’s been working great. But I hit a snag today. Started getting a very vague “IO Error #2038″ message instead of what should have been coming back … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-30

Posted on July 30th, 2011 by Ryan

Cool video on Fibonacci http://youtu.be/kkGeOWYOFoA # RT @the99percent: "There is no limit to what a man can achieve as long as he doesn't care who get's the credit" -Bob Woodruff. # Funny, was talking about this at a workshop last … Continue reading →

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Blocking Baidu

Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Ryan

Went through this a year or so ago. The Baidu spider was hammering a forum and I blocked it because after hundreds of thousands of hits they sent me a grand total of 1 visitor. Let it sit for a … Continue reading →

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Problem with SyntaxHighlighter and 2 character strings

Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Ryan

Had a very odd, very frustrating issue come up trying to get SyntaxHighlighter working on a project I’m working on. When the code to be highlighted was only two characters long it would blank it out and the code would … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-23

Posted on July 23rd, 2011 by Ryan

@mig8447 Wound up using the built in @wordpress function instead. Still haven't found a nice clean solution. # @mig8447 Used the ajaxurl variable in the Javascript http://bit.ly/n7gpb3 and added a WP plugin to handle what needed to be done # … Continue reading →

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Twitter mention spam is a pain

Posted on July 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Guess I’m just used to e-mail spam. It’s just always there and Spam Bayes does a pretty decent job of taking care of it. But Twitter mention spam is more irritating. Probably just because it’s relatively new, but irritating anyway. … Continue reading →

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