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May 2009

Escape Code Stripping in libxml2

There is a problem with the Drupal aggregator module stripping out HTML escape codes (i.e. &lt; &gt; & etc.) from RSS feeds when using PHP <= 5.2.6 with libxml2 >= 2.6.32.

This is due to an intentional change in the behaviour of libxml2 after version 2.6.32. Some sites suggest reverting to libxml2-2.6.30 - while this works as a temporary solution, it is no longer necessary or advisable.


Life as a Programmer

"You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it's finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you've created. It has an abstract shape in your head that's completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful.


Boardroom Punk



From a shoot I did last Saturday. I've yet to finish going through all the pictures and pick out the "keepers," but this is the first of the bunch.


Reptard Flashback

I just found out that Yahoo! will be closing down Geocities permanently in the very near future. My first thought was, "Now what will Reptard do?"

I decided to take a look at my favourite paranoid schizophrenic's website for the first time in a few years and, as ever, was highly amused.