Adventures in Glendale
Sunday, 1. November 2009, 15:25:22
Tuesday, 13. October 2009, 00:19:17
Yesterday was Unity Fest in Glendale. This was the eighth event, and the first we had attended. They had a petting zoo, a pony ride, foods from all over the world, and entertainment from all over as well. Glendale has two sister cities, one in Korea, and one in Mexico. Officially, we only have those two, but considering the large population of Armenians in Glendale, I think that we must consider at least Yerevan if not the whole of Armenia as a sister city.
The first thing we did was take Spane to the petting zoo. Spane was a little afraid of the animals, and we just encouraged him to pet the animals. The sheep seemed to be following the children looking for someone to pet/scratch them. The goats were following children around looking for something to eat. There were also a few chickens, a black pot belly pig, and a rabbit. I am sure those animals were there because they were the most docile. There was one sheep that just laid down and waited for the children to come up and brush her.
The first time we took Spane to ride a pony at Griffith Park , when he was about three years old, we waited in line for a long time (anything past 30 seconds is a long time when you're waiting in line with a toddler), and then he was too afraid and cried bitterly when he was put on the pony. We figured this time that he was ready, and there he was 
, happily riding the horse.
Now, here's a quiz for you all. What was the name of Black Beauty's best friend? Although I am reading Black Beauty to Spane now, for the life of me, I could not remember, until the lady operator told us that the little horse whose hoof is pictured has the same name. Check Wikipedia and if you still do not know, his name was (ROT13)Zreelyrtf .Saturday, 19. September 2009, 00:41:26
Maybe I should not be posting this, but what the heck! I've already notified Yahoo, so they can't say they were not warned.
I was on the phone with Yahoo today about one of my clients, and I got some rather surprising news, so I emailed (one of their wonderful forms) support, and this is what I said:
I am very surprised, disheartened and disappointed to see that Yahoo is still using PHP Version 4.3.11. PHP is now up to version 5.3.0. When I was talking to someone in support this afternoon, I was told that Yahoo was using 4.3.11 for security reasons.
One of the main reasons most hosting providers upgraded their servers was the issue of Registered Globals. This is VERY dangerous, and problably most Yahoo small business account holders either do not know or care about it. That is not true of hackers - this is something that hackers test for, just as they test for easy sql injection. Please see [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PHP_Programming/Register_Globals] for a full description of the dangers of Registered Globals.
Checking Yahoo Small Business php.ini file, I saw that Registered Globals is ON - that is very dangerous for Yahoo and its customers. What I suggest you do is send a global email out to all account holders that you are going to turn it OFF, and they can consult Google for relavent coding to turn it on if they must on a case by case basis. For this site, I have turned them off.
Of course, the best thing to do would be to upgrade your servers to the latest version of PHP. Let users know that some of their code may not work, but that it is being done for security reasons. [http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php].
I must say, these people are really shnooks. Last time I had to deal with them (same account) they told me that they did not allow htaccess for security reasons. Well, of course not! Not when your whole server is insecure and you're using bandaids to shore it up.
My recommedation to anyone who is using Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting is to get the Hell out of Dodge and use a real web host, like Axishost, Lunar Pages, Start Logic, or even GoDaddy for the true masochist.
Saturday, 11. July 2009, 03:14:11
Friday, 19. June 2009, 22:20:46
Now that Internet Explorer is less fault tolerant, and more standards compliant, more and more people are complaining about how their website was fine in IE7, but breaks miserably in IE8. Usually this is the fault of the tool chosen to create the web site, and not necessarily the author. Authors were given the impression that they could use an Office product such as Publisher, Word, or worse, PowerPoint to create documents for the WWW. These are great tools for what they are intended, creating flyers, writing letters and make presentations, but not for creating documents for the Internet.
Sadly, a lot of authors do not know anything about HTML, or CSS, or even why the errors their chosen tool generated are impacting their web site so badly. They know that the web site does not work in IE8, and they are worried that they might lose business.
I feel for you, brothers and sisters. Bring me your broken websites, and I will fix them. Not only will they look lovely in IE8, they will be leaner and faster, and more accessible to search engines and visitors who might be differently abled.
Please feel free to visit my website to find out how to get your website working in IE8.
Monday, 27. April 2009, 17:20:08
Saturday, 25. April 2009, 00:12:05
Tuesday, 31. March 2009, 18:44:16
Posted by Adrienne Boswell on March 1, 2009, 3:04 am
I feel like I am at the edge of the rabbit hole. A good friend
introduced me to something called LocalAdLink. It's an MLM thing, and
you sign people up with the expectation that they will have a Sponsored
result in Google (and according to the web site, a lot of other se's as
well). You pay for a certain amount of zipcodes and keywords, and since
Google uses Geotracking, your ad should come up if the searcher is using
your keywords, and his IP address maps to one of the zipcodes you
bought.
Now, the link clearly showed it was going to LocalAdLink, but as a
searcher, you would want to see the product/service you were looking
for, not LocalAdLink with a tiny link to the website that had bought the
ad.
The hype was to go out and sell it before March 1, 2009, before the
prices went up. Oddly enough, they sent out an email to all the
affiliates saying that they were doing some major work on their servers,
so their site was partially down yesterday (2 days before the cutoff).
Interestingly, this LocalAdLink thing was working up until yesterday
afternoon, and tonight, it seems that Google must have caught on to what
was happening, because all the sponsored links going to LocalAdLink are
gone.
Moral of the story - don't mess with Mother Nature, and don't mess with
Google.
--
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Saturday, 21. March 2009, 00:18:19
The award for Best Appetizer at the Fil-Am Kiwanis function went to yours truly for the Country French Pate with Blue Cheese Butter Spread and Cornichons. I didn't win for my Ultimate Sour Cherry Fudge Cake, but who cares, right? The Oreo truffles won, and they were truly fantastic!
Sunday, 8. February 2009, 01:41:25
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