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baby sumo · Sep 6, 04:00 pm

who knew you could set your baby against another in a vocal chord challenge?

i’m totally entering the boy in this. as long as i don’t have to wear those skimpy assistant outfits…

also – do they have contests at 3am?

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what do people love most about my blog? · Oct 17, 07:10 pm

one might think the reviews of clever writing, the insightful technology thoughts, the lurid drunken nonsense, gifts for my nephew, but no. if search results can be believed:

the catastrophic failure.

a while back i wrote about one my many uninstall experiences with macromedia dreamweaver. during the ‘incompatible, incapacitating and evil version 7’ phase of this application i used the tool daily, and would reinstall the blasted application several times a week.

during one of those reinstalls i got the following ridiculous message:

Catastrophic Error with Dreamweaver

according to my search results people search for this term by the thousands. and get to my image. hoping against hope that their system is not damaged, that their software will save them.

i hold out no hope to those lost few. dreamweaver will not save your soul, your hard drive, or your settings.

i now use textmate.

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blogging from my handheld · Jun 28, 01:29 pm

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i have a fancy device that allows me to blog directly from a piece of technology that fits in my pocket. cool, but it’s a terrible phone. i can’t hear what people say, and they can’t hear me. often a phone call will be successful, but it is not reliable. on the plus side – it does check email. I can’t tell whether it is awesome or awful.

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flash: loading data from www.domain.com vs domain.com · Jun 2, 02:38 pm

Macromedia Flash Player Settings - Security Warning

every now and then I encounter an issue where I want to load XML, images or other data into a flash movie. loading data works from www.mysite.com, but not from http://mysite.com. if i’m publishing to flash player 7 or 8 there are some security concerns i often forget about:

you may need to create a file called crossdomain.xml and upload it to the root of your server.

<cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="" /> </cross-domain-policy>

you will want to determine the site you’re trying to access (say – yellowpencil.com) and add that to the parameters if you want to restrict access to the server you are trying to reach (generally a good idea).

<allow-access-from domain="www.yellowpencil.com" secure="false" />

the domain=”www.yellowpencil.com” is where you add your particular domain you’d like to allow, and
secure=”false” states whether it is a secure connection or not.
the easiest way to tell is to look at the http statement (is it http – secure=”false”, or https – secure=”true”)

you’ll also need to add some code in your flash movie.

System.security.allowDomain("yellowpencil.com", "www.yellowpencil.com");

see the help files in flash for more information about System.security.allowDomain.

this code in an XML file and your flash movie should prevent any users from seeing a popup box in their flash warning about security risks.

macrodobe has a ton of great reading and examples here

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oh dreamweaver! · Sep 28, 10:14 pm

it is not in epiphany and excitation that i plunk that exclamation point at the end of my title.

i was hoping that with a fancy new release of software, i would get an application that would speed up my work and provide a robust working environment where code flows freely and easily. my frustration stems from what could have been.

i love the new features, and i love the new interface. however, i opened two documents i had previously created, started a new stylesheet, and as soon as i click one of the previous tabs to reference an earlier document the entire application went ** poof **.

strong note: this is the mac version i’m writing about. at the office paul is using the peecee version, and it seeems to be working quite well for him. still crashes, just … less.

i can’t imagine how complicated this application is, and i’m stunned at the things this new version is capable of. but it’s also amazing how frustrating it is when the application poops out in my first serious test of it. not like i was running a xslt transformation through a data connection or anything, it was just a css file. the first time i sat down with it – splat.

not wallet inspiring so far.

demo for 23 more days.

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