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Not understanding the problem

There’s a cute little site here where a graphic designer rants a bit about the American Airlines website, and how if he had the opportunity to design it, he’d do it so much better.   That’s not the interesting part – people on the internet waiting to tell you how much better that they’d do things if they had your job…

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Configuring WordPress with FORCE_SSL_ADMIN with shared SSL and hardware load balancing

While updating our WordPress configuration to deal with a semi-related problem, I wanted to move from the configuration we’d be using which required all administrative logins to WordPress to use SSL encryption to a more secure model that required the entire administrative session be encrypted. These two choices are controlled via settings in the wp-config.php file.  They’re detailed here at…

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What the cluck?

Here’s a picture from a Houston, TX Chick-fil-a today, as people responded to Rick Santorum’s call to come out showing support for the restaurant chain. And here’s a picture of a Houston, TX polling place during the 2008 Presidential election. We are a nation of idiots.

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Things I Have Really Been Asked

Every single one of the items in this list is something that I’ve been asked to do in at one point or another during the last four years of my professional life.  No items are embellished, only specific details are left out to protect the person making the request. Funny questions I’ve been asked “How do I make my site…

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Mile 10 is a beast

Some thoughts on this years Flying Pig Half Marathon in Cincinnati.  It started out beautifully, with perfect weather and what seemed like a very large crowd.  Almost everyone who was running seemed to have a crowd of supporters with them.  The crowd was energetic, and so were the runners. Just like last year, the first four miles – starting at Paul…

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