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"Murphy was an optimist!"

From the mouths of babes January 23, 2012 11:13 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, From the mouths of babes
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Me: "It’s time to wake up."
Evan, 6 years old, stumbles from bed, stomps down the hall: "Argh. Why does this happen every night‽"

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Memory flush January 17, 2012 11:07 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, Of Being Dad
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It’s never a good time to suddenly remember that you need to buy a new plunger.

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Mental Me January 12, 2012 2:12 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Health, Mental
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The stress is far too great today.

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Cross-domain communication January 11, 2012 9:16 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : HTML, Programming, Technology
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If I have an aspx site on one server, let’s call it foo.com and I have a php site on another server, let’s call it bar.com, and I want to use an iframe to include data from foo.com within the bar.com site, security for iframes prevents this correct?

So, if I instead create a subdomain of foo.com, let’s call it bar.foo.com and use bar.foo.com for the aspx site, does that overcome the cross-domain security issue since both sites are now part of the foo.com domain or does the nature of bar.foo.com being a tertiary domain still create the security issue since bar.foo.com is technically different than foo.com?

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Something has changed January 11, 2012 9:00 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, House
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Why yes! There’s some before and after and more before and after.

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How tired? January 10, 2012 2:45 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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So tire, I cannot even type a post…

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To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave a Legacy January 6, 2012 4:14 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Deep Thoughts, Evan, Family, Of Being Dad, Philosophy
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I slowly explained, with long sentences and great clarity, "To Live, To Love, To Learn, To Leave a Legacy" to the six year old. He listened intently. Repeated my words. And questioned. But there was a definitive moment when his fuse clearly popped.

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Repeat after me January 5, 2012 2:25 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Technology
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I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.
I will not upgrade my client’s dedicated server in the middle of the night during the middle of the week.

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3PO! 3PO! Shut down the… January 5, 2012 9:49 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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You know the garbage compactor scene in Star Wars? Yeah, today is like that.

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The IT World is a Religious Place January 5, 2012 1:19 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Technology
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Information Technology work is religious. The work I do frequently requires faith and prayer and when things go wrong I end up in Hell.

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WordPress Hooks, Actions and Filters – Modifying the Publish function January 4, 2012 10:38 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Blog, Communications, PHP, Programming, Publishing, Software, Technology, WordPress
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I’m writing a child theme to twentyeleven and want to modify the administrative post "Publish" function to do some additional processing during the saving of a new post. Does anyone know if there is a hook, action or filter that will allow me to extend the Publish function?

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And so it ends December 19, 2011 5:55 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States, War, World Politics
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Read more…

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Today is Bill of Rights Day December 15, 2011 10:58 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States
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Today is Bill of Rights Day

Today is Bill of Rights Day. To Americans, the Bill of Rights are key amendments to the U.S. Constitution, that protect our individual rights.

[Source, Holiday Insights]

I find it without irony that the US Senate has passed a bill allowing the indefinite detention of US citizens and that the House of Representatives appears ready to pass the bill, and on this very day the House Judiciary Committee is ready to make a vote on SOPA which will dramatically alter the Internet and people’s rights on the Internet.

I like this quote:

It is a curious way to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights.

[Source, JONATHAN TURLEY, Happy Birthday, Bill [of Rights]: Obama Breaks Promise To Veto Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans]

See also:

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Arizona/Mexico Border Wars – 1979 December 9, 2011 10:13 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States, War
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"If you win, you can cross over; if we win, you throw pot over the fence."

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RIP No Silence Here December 7, 2011 12:26 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Blog, Of Interest, Publishing
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I cannot seem to get a comment to post on the Knoxnews blog No Silence Here.

"I’m told it will cease to exist." That’s a terrible shame. Blogs, content, are history. Like newspapers of old were archived on microfiche, so should blogs such as No Silence Here be forever archived.

Good luck to you Michael! Thank you for the years of inspiration, links, and ideas.

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