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The ‘Halifax Tree’ Suffers from Christmas Political Correctness

November 30, 2005

We are entering the annual season of political McCartyism, also known as Christmas. It’s at this time every year that we hear all sorts of absurd political correctness about Christmas. Christmas become “The Holidays”. Merry Christmas becomes Happy Holidays. TV stations replace traditional “Merry Christmas” advertising with “Happy Channukah” or Kwaanza.
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More Evidence Against IE

November 29, 2005

For those of you “dyed in the wool” Internet Exploder users, I’ve got another one for you to explode over. A six month old bug in IE is apparently an *EXTREMELY CRITICAL* exploit, according to secuirity firm, Secunia. HEre’s some juicy details:
bq. The realization caused Secunia to issue a rare “Extremely Critical” advisory. [...]

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Case Study b5Media: Debugging PHP – Part 1

November 28, 2005

I talked earlier about landing a deal with “b5media”:http://www.b5media.com to implement a migration script to move their 32 new blogs into WordPress. I thought the deal would be straightforward enough but I ran into a number of issues with the importer.
I wanted to give you a window into the process of debugging for one [...]

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b5Media Acquisition Contract

November 26, 2005

Hot on the heels of “the Textpattern to WordPress importer”:http://www.technosailor.com/textpattern-to-wordpress-import-script/, I’ve landed a relatively high profile job of writing a Nucleus CMS importer for “b5Media”:http://www.b5media.com, the little blog network that is far too big beyond it’s infancy. On November 9th, b5 “went public with it’s merger plans with About Weblogs”:http://www.b5media.com/b5media-merges-with-about-weblogs/, the all female blog [...]

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Friday Poll and Another Migration

November 25, 2005

It may not come as a huge surprise to you that I have moved back to WordPress. Yes, this after not even a month of a foray to Textpattern. While Textpattern was nice and lightweight, I still find it cumbersome with plugins, etc. “You probably saw it coming”:http://www.technosailor.com/textpattern-to-wordpress-import-script/.
One thing I do have [...]

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Why America can’t Take Canadians Seriously

November 25, 2005

News flash.
UFOs exist and we need to consider exopolitics — that is, politics with Extra Terrestrials. This “according to Mr Hellyer”:http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs_prweb/prweb314382_1, a former Candian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister.
bq. On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul [...]

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Xbox 360 and the Future of the video game industry

November 23, 2005

With the release of the Xbox360, a new era in gaming has arrived, or has it?
Sure, there are many more pixels to make things prettier and more life like, but what are people really getting?
It seems that Microsoft is betting the entire game on the online gaming world. With arcade games online and mutliplayer as [...]

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Textpattern to WordPress Import Script

November 22, 2005

I have not been posting much the past few days because I’ve been busy at work writing a detailed Textpattern importer for WordPress. This import script, should it be included in the core source code, will allow Textpattern bloggers to make the switch to WordPress.
We even have Textile, guys! Come on in, the water [...]

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Decorating for the Holidays

November 22, 2005

With the Christmas season upon us, I’ve decided to decorate the place a little. It’s a bit premature since Thanksgiving isn’t even passed, but the next few days will be somewhat hectic for me as I travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, prepare to go hunting this weekend and finish up some WordPress coding. [...]

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Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess Users

November 20, 2005

This is a general inquiry to find out who, if any of my readers, subscribes to Verizon Wireless’ BroadbandAccess nationwide wifi plan? I have some questions. Drop me an email at aaron [at] technosailor [dot] com.
Thanks

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