Michael R. Barrick's blog
Tue, 2009/07/07 - 10:39pm
I just started a relatively short contract job today. It's pretty much on the level of the sort of work I was doing about 10 years ago, but these days underemployed beats unemployed, so I took the gig. And one day in I have to wonder how a lot of people occupying I.T. positions stay employed at all. I have a baseline criteria for evaluating a workplace: if my home network is technically superior, they fail.
Mon, 2009/06/29 - 10:46pm
The Basics
Let me start by glossing over some of the classic arguments against extraterrestrial visitors:
Mon, 2009/06/22 - 2:25pm

Below is a snippet of marketing twaddle from the web equivalent of a chain letter/Ponzi scam, promulgated by an SEO snake-oil salesman. The business model is an "affiliate program[me]" where one earns commissions for suckering people into buying crappy, cookie-cutter websites for $20/mo.
Tue, 2009/06/02 - 11:06am
Try out the new friends feature - add me!
Tue, 2009/06/02 - 8:34am
I've just finished adding a new feature: now logged-in users can tag their friends in pictures in the photo gallery. Once you have added someone to your friends list just use the "tag friends" link in the caption area of the photo you want to tag.
Sun, 2009/05/17 - 3:35pm
There is a problem with the Drupal aggregator module stripping out HTML escape codes (i.e. < > & 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.
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