Author: Gabriel

Ninjians – A Review of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The most I got out of watching Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Cystal Skull was when, in a scene where they exit a cave and indians / aztecs / natives / whatever popped out from the ceiling and walls and whatnot, it prompted me to think that they were like Ninjas.

Then at about the time it turns out there were hundreds of them I realized what would be a cool way to call them – Ninjians.

And I laughed at myself, which was inopportune, because who laughs when the heroes are being chased by Ninjians, right? Then I laughed some more, because I used it in a sentence. I’m laughing right now, actually. Hahahahaha!

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XML Feed Finally Validating

I just fixed one of the most confounding problems I’d ever come across on WordPress, so I’m sharing how I did it because I definitely couldn’t find the solution after weeks of trying.

See I was trying to get the valid XML feed for a particular Tag or Category from this blog, a process I’ve instigated on PLUG’s mailing list, so that the PLUG website can aggregate feeds tagged as ‘plug’ or ‘open source’ or ‘foss’ voluntarily submitted by its (currently 130+ strong) membership.

The problem was when I try to get the feed URL, for example:

http://www.lefthandedlayup.com/index.php/tag/plug/feed

I get this error:

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://www.lefthandedlayup.com/index.php/tag/plug/feed
Line Number 2, Column 1:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
^

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Where’s The Warranty?

If I could return my body to the manufacturer I would. Lately I’ve been waking up to pounding headaches, and spend most of my day battling it. It leaves me tired, completely uninterested in getting any work done and wanting only to stay my ass in bed. In fact, work is a chore and it takes all sorts of convincing to get me to do anything.

Obviously I’ve even less energy to go to the gym and its almost two weeks now. The result? I feel guilty about not getting work done and not going to the gym, so not only do I have a pounding headache, I am super annoyed at myself as well.

Sigh.

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What I Learned From My Talk

The talk went well. I thought there were only a few attendees at the start but 5 minutes into my talk it was SRO.

I learned a few things about myself plus a few observations. Lemme break it down so I won’t forget.

  1. Detailed pics of the sites won’t show up well on a not – so – good projector.
  2. Ten or more pages can translate to more than an hour.

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Tentative Outline for My Talk on Wednesday (rescheded for the 22nd)

may 21 – I was rather quickly bumped off for some celebrity who they decided was more important than me. I suppose I should’ve quit at that point but heck, sure let’s get on with it. I was rescheduled for tomorrow instead, 4-5PM. So if you went, so sorry. I’m just as surprised as you are.

I figure IV – 4 is the interesting part. The rest is just me taking up time.

  1. Introduction
  2. Who Am I?
  3. My Blogs
      Basketball Exchange

    1. Stats
    2. I Work With
    3. Content Type
    4. Services
      Mom Exchange

    1. Stats
    2. I Work With
    3. Content Type
    4. Services
      Kikay Exchange

    1. Stats
    2. I Work With
    3. Content Type
    4. Services

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