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Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 10:29

Sorry about that, National Geographic.

A couple weeks back I put together a list of News Corp-owned domains and posted it on Reddit in case anyone cared to use it to block those sites, perhaps in their hosts file. It got a few dozen upvotes and I figured it wouldn’t amount to anything. Fast forward a few days and others …

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Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 11:38

SpamAssassin Irony

I just re-enabled SpamAssassin on my server after a couple issues required turning it off for about a day, and it immediately flagged its very own ‘now enabled’ email notification as spam: Received: from localhost by box584.bluehost.com with SpamAssassin (version 3.3.0); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:28:54 -0600 From: “Spam Assassin” <spamassassin@localhost> Subject: ***SPAM***  X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 …

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 15:18

Fun with PBS Video, oEmbed, and WordPress

Today I discovered that COVE can generate oEmbed JSON for at least some of their videos. To use this in WordPress, all you have to do is us wp_oembed_add_provider(), like so: <?php wp_oembed_add_provider( ‘http://video.pbs.org/video/*’, ‘http://video.pbs.org/oembed/’ ); ?> The easiest way to do this is just stick it in your theme’s functions.php file. Let’s try it …

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Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 23:25

Mediocre web typography is finally pining for the fjords.

If you’ve got a reasonably modern browser (one that supports @font-face), you’ll probably see this new headline font now has ligatures. IE still sucks as usual. Chrome seems to have difficulty with ligatures on certain fonts, but I’m unsure as to whether it’s all fonts embedded with @font-face and not system fonts, or if it’s …

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Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 03:50

Photos from Hungary

Here are photos from Budapest, Hungary. I’ll have Austria/Switzerland up next. I can’t believe our trip’s only one more week!

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Monday, May 24, 2010 at 09:14

Photos from Denmark and Germany

I’ve been in Europe for about a week and a half so far, and it’s been great! You can view my entire collection of photos on Flickr so far, organised chronologically by country.  Here’s a preview: The whole collection of photos on Flickr

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Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 12:37

Europe!

Today I’m leaving on a one-month trip to Europe with Sarah, who has been studying in Copenhagen since January.  Her program, DIS, ends this week, and at its conclusion we’ll be travelling through seven different countries: Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Austria, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Our primary method of travel will be train, used by …

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Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 03:33

Finally, a new site design!

Hey all; I’ve finally gotten around to working on eoban.com again.  I’ve decided to re-launch it with the cleanest and most modern design I could come up with; my theme for WordPress, Knallertbanden.  It’s been in use on Sarah’s site for a few months now, so my job is more or less to try and …

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