Posted on Leave a comment

Healthy by ignorance

For 14 years, I lived a healthy life. I was healthy because I did not know any better. For those 14 years, I was uninsured and avoided the doctor. Since I avoided the doctor, I had no reason to believe I was anything but healthy.

Today I go to the doctor as an insured person to receive a physical complete with EKG. I suspect that I will have very good results with the exception of high blood pressure; none the less, I sit in the waiting room with butterflies in my stomach. See, nothing makes an uninsured person more ill than visiting the doctor and after nearly a decade and a half, more than a third of my life, without insurance, my mind cannot help but think of worse case scenarios and how they, no matter how minor, could devastate my life and finances.

I have good insurance now. However, I have walked the walk and am acutely aware of how desperately this country, the United States of America, needs healthcare reform. The Obama administration made a start but gave in to too many concessions. Were I still uninsured, the healthcare “reform” would be doing nothing for me.

Posted on Leave a comment

Cross-domain communication

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?

Posted on Leave a comment

Repeat after me

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.

Posted on Leave a comment

WordPress Hooks, Actions and Filters – Modifying the Publish function

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?