Rare Music

Written on 04 Jul 2008. 0 comments. Categories: music, WWW

For those who aren’t aware, I started collecting music memorabilia, specifically that of Say Anything, The Format, and +44.

As a general disclaimer, eBay and Music Stack have been great for this endeavor. If you can’t find an album on eBay or it’s there but overpriced, Music Stack is a great place to look.

I bought three things on eBay that I’ve been genuinely excited about: a vinyl version of Say Anything’s …Is a Real Boy, a signed copy of the CD version of that album, and a signed copy of Say Anything’s For Sale… EP. This post is about the EP.

It’s amazing. I mean, I’ve heard all the songs before and there are only two songs on the EP that aren’t on any other album, but it’s great to finally see the album inserts and the CD. Plus, it’s signed.

Here are some pictures:
Front cover
Back cover
Album insert
CD face
Album opened up

captcha

Written on 10 May 2008. 1 comment. Categories: icorey, WWW

I tried a few things to stop spam on my website and nothing worked completely. So, I decided to add a CAPTCHA to my site. ReCAPTCHA was my captcha of choice.

The thing is, unlike most websites that use XHTML, my website uses XHTML and is actually output as an XML document instead of an HTML file (except in Internet Explorer, where up is down, right is left, etc.)—this is the correct way to use XHTML.

So why is this a problem? Apparently, many programs, reCAPTCHA included, use JavaScript that is incompatible with XML. So when reCAPTCHA tries to display its funny text and a nice text field, not a damned thing shows up (again, except on Internet Explorer).

The end result: only Internet Explorer users can submit comments on my website…how backwards. I suppose I’ll fix this in a few days.

Horde

Written on 09 Oct 2007. 0 comments. Categories: WWW

I use Horde as my awesome web−mail application. I also use it as a calendar and address book because it’s just that amazing.

Learn more:
http://www.horde.org/

I like to follow trends.

Written on 09 Jun 2007. 0 comments. Categories: icorey, WWW

Well, yet again, for those reading this on facebook, I make these posts for/on my web site and then I have my facebook account set up to automatically import the posts into my profile as notes. Thus, the posts don’t always have something to do with facebook and usually deal with my web site and web development.

I was reading another blog about mistakes made while blogging. As it turns out, I’ve made all but two of these mistakes. But I don’t care: I don’t read other blogs, so most of the mistakes don’t really apply to me�I just like having my own blog and updating it when I have a thought to mention.

However, I like the point made about search engine optimization. I like when people come to my web site, so it seems like a good idea. So, I thought about changing my blogging program to use links with words in them instead of numbers. A little thinking led me to realize I could easily use the titles corresponding to each post ID number (and therefore each post, obviously).

Of course, some titles (like this one) contain spaces and other special characters, so I had to use PHP’s rawurlencode() and rawurldecode() methods. A few short uses of these methods in place of ID numbers and the changes were done. As mentioned in the referenced post, my urls are now, for instance, http://icorey.com/news/focus/Farking%20ducks/ instead of http://icorey.com/news/focus/54/.

Alas, this method has not proved perfect. The links or PHP blows up when the posts have some of the more esoteric special characters in them. In time, hopefully I can look into this and fix it.