Entries Categorized as 'Rants'

Change Is In The Air

Author: , November 20th, 2011

For decades I have dreamed of real, lasting, non-violent positive change, only to watch our country and the world at large appear to come apart at the seams these past years. All along, I have felt powerless to effect positive change, that there was no clear path to the correct goal. Until now… Please go […]

Comcast Woes

Author: , November 14th, 2011

At 12:30pm today my Comcast cable internet connection decided to die. Or, more accurately, the Comcast servers decided my service was no longer valid because they lost the serial number to my modem. So, instead of running my business as usual, all TCP traffic is blocked! A long call to tech support failed to resolve […]

Scary AWS Moment

Author: , November 7th, 2011

Just lost contact with all of my AWS instances for a few minutes. Definitely an Amazon-specific network issue, since my SSH sessions did not break, just froze for a little while, and I was able to reach non-AWS destinations. All is back now…YAY!

How To Use Regular Expressions In JavaScript

Author: , November 3rd, 2011

RegExp.exec(string) Applies the RegExp to the given string, and returns the match information.

match then contains [“Sample”,”amp”] RegExp.test(string) Tests if the given string matches the Regexp, and returns true if matching, false if not.

match then contains false String.match(pattern) Matches given string with the RegExp. With g flag returns an array containing the […]

The Apple iPhone 4S Is Amazing Beyond Words

Author: , October 14th, 2011

We just got our pair of iPhones today, right on schedule. Looks like AT&T and FedEx did a wonderful job getting the product to our doorstep. I was able to do the activations on the AT&T site with no problem. The phone is…well…extraordinary. Who cares if it is not called the iPhone 5? This thing […]

Another Saturday Night…

Author: , August 13th, 2011

Spent the afternoon with my awesome wife just driving around the countryside. Ended up back at Elements for dinner. Enjoyed a fabulous meal there.

Cannot Face Facebook Any Longer

Author: , August 12th, 2011

Today, I left Facebook. Cancelled my account and everything. The privacy issues were just too much for me. So tired of fighting to keep my personal information, well, PERSONAL… Did you know that it takes 14 days for them to actually cancel your account? That is correct – if you “like” something anywhere on the […]

Amazon Cloud Rains

Author: , August 8th, 2011

How To Export WordPress From The Command Line CLI

Author: , July 29th, 2011

Create a file called export.php in the wordpress top directory containing the following (remember to add the PHP tags at the top and bottom):

Adobe Flash, Scourge Of The Internet -or- How To Fix Safari 5.1 Crashes

Author: , July 28th, 2011

In the past, I used clicktoflash.com to block Flash plugins. Safari was VERY stable. Then, Safari 5.1 REMOVED SUPPORT for webkit plugins and BROKE Click-To-Flash. Shame on you Apple. I did not know this, and have been experiencing Safari crashes every night. Then I installed Marc Hoyois’ ClickToPlugin Safari Extension found at http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ All you […]