Alex Jones: Web Technologist, Barbecue Acolyte, Information Junkie, Austinite

Tasty Black Shoe Polish

When Ella chomped into the bottle of liquid shoe polish this afternoon did she decide it was none too tasty and drop it right there on the carpet here in my office?

No.

She carried it into the hall, leaving a drip-drop trail of black splotches.

The buffing sponge on the other hand was apparently good enough to take downstairs for a proper chewin’.

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Karma..?

From cnn.com:

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee (AP) — A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.

Full Story: Participant at KKK initiation wounded after shots fired into sky

Perhaps this knocked a little sense into him…

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Amazon Wishlist Code

Well, I’m pretty happy with the code I’ve written for posting my Amazon Wishlist here on the site. I’ve spent a good bit of time working with the XML provided by Amazon and created an XSL template for the site in addition to the PHP to parse the results sent from Amazon. I also set it up to grab multiple pages of results from Amazon as that is the only way to display more than 10 items at a time.

The code is pretty straightforward at this point as I have written it in a way that it will be easy for anyone to set up with little-to-no knowledge of PHP. After a little more testing, documentation editing and some code clean-up, I will post the scripts for whomever would like to download them.

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Determination

Well, all of the exercising has paid off. I’ve lost right about five inches from my waist. I now fit into the same size of 501s that I wore in high school. Talk about a good feeling!

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A. G. Russell Knives

At 6:49 A.M., Central Time the new A. G. Russell Knives Web site was introduced to the world.

Come on by, and say hello.

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