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Why Target Hates Freedom, America, and Kittens

Yeah, the title is linkbait. Get over it.

So my wife wanted to print some coupons from Target.com today. She’s been using the Chromebook a lot lately 1.

So it’s not too uncommon a request for her to ask me to print something. Neither one of us had set up Google Cloud Print, and I was using the desktop, which is wired to the printer.

So I went to target.com, checked the coupons she I we wanted to print, and clicked “Print Coupons”. This is what I saw (green emphasis mine):

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Notes:

  1. Her HP laptop (with Windows) has decided to take 15 minutes to turn on and a subsequent 5 minutes to process any input and 5 minutes to render all output ↩

Posted on December 3, 2011 at 6:25 pm

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An example of post formats ‒ This is an aside post format. Andrew Spittle is talking about them right now at the WordPress DC meetup.

Starting Things the Right Way

 

First snow of the season today, so we had chocolate pecan pie and hot drinks after dinner. Elizabeth and her mom had hot buttered rum and I had a hot toddy (pictured).

Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:36 pm

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EOL for Custom Post Permalinks

I have decided that I will no longer be supporting or actively developing Custom Post Permalinks. Part of me regrets releasing this plugin in the first place. The problem with making a really simple to use plugin that extends a really really hard to understand API is that people who don’t know what they’re doing will be encouraged to act as if they do.

If I had a dollar for every time somebody tried to give their CPT top level permalinks (just like pages) and then claimed my plugin broke their site, I wouldn’t have to pay for coffee for at least a month.

The plugin didn’t break your site. You did.

Anyway, I have no time to spend on support requests; I will not be maintaining the plugin or updating it in the future. Family life and work are both keeping me too busy for that.

If you’re interested in taking over the repo for the plugin, let me know in the comments.

Posted on June 16, 2011 at 11:00 am 3 Comments

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Three Awesome Functions in WordPress You Might Not Know About

WordPress is a large application. According to Westi’s XREF of trunk, WordPress defines 188 classes, 3840 functions, and 302 constants (since the xref counts variables of all scopes, I’m not including them here). For comparison, depending on your version of PHP, there are anywhere from 2-4 thousand native functions in the language. With so many functions, WordPress is bound to have some really cool ones floating around; and unless you either read core or are active on trac and/or #wordpress-dev, you might not have seen these before.

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Posted on February 9, 2011 at 4:15 pm 4 Comments

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Taxonomies in the Wild

Wow, this is the first post in a long time… sorry about that.

I’ve been doing a lot of fun things with taxonomies lately. I can’t go into too much detail here, but for the time being, I’ll leave you with my latest and favorite recent use of taxonomies: the picture here is of the drawers I got in the office today. Continue Reading

Posted on November 22, 2010 at 3:58 pm

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