• Geek Out! - Uncategorical Weirdness

    425-390-8105 Is Probably the ANTI Do Not Call Database

    November 21, 2011 - By 

    I received a call at work from a Renton WA number, and immediatly after got a spam text message. When I called the Renton number back, it was a voicemail saying “Welcome to the Do Not Call database. If you would like to be added to the database, enter your 10-digit phone number.” Note, no “Federal,” no mention of a US governmental entity. So I assume that it was actually an opt-in database for phone spammers, based on a bit of Googling around as seen below. One commenter remarked that it’s probably “out of country” spammers using some kind of…

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    How One Utah Deals With Trolls: Into The Bucket!

    November 20, 2011 - By 

    Be sure to check back to see if/how this develops. This post shall serve as collection station; a trash bucket for the uniformed, poorly-sourced or offensively-stupid comments of angry right-wingers, bigots, racists, misogynists or anonymous trolls. This collection shall become a compost heap of sorts where these comments, as designated by OneUtah authors, will over time, fester, boil and decay until finally merging into a steaming pile of something that smells a lot like the abject suffering, socioeconomic injustice and murder of the innocent wrought upon us by blind obedience to the evil masters, politicians, pundits, corporations, false prophets, demagogues…

  • Geek Out! - The Never-Ending Bloga - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Not so Simple: Simple Facebook Connect « WordPress Plugins

    November 11, 2011 - By 

    I finally got Simple Facebook Connect working between the St Nick’s webpage and the Facebook page, mostly. It was both simple and not simple: Facebook had changed the look of their Apps page, and there is more than one Apps page. So one “how to install this app” tutorial I tried to follow was visually outdated, but a text update had been added at the bottom. The plugin developer had not bothered to remove screenshots on an old blog post on his site, but added a terse update noting that the instructions in the plugin readme.txt file and on the…

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    Don’t Panic!

    November 6, 2011 - By 

    I messed up the display of my blog, I KNOW. I shouldn’ta messed with the theme, and now one of the plugins (Woo Tumblog) is messed up. Maybe I’ll just roll with this although I’d rather have the 3 columns and the image rotator.

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    Riley’s Favorite: Ocean Whitefish and Tuna Feast Classic

    November 5, 2011 - By 

    With Riley’s health issues, we’ve struggled at times to get his weight up. Not a problem if we give him his ‘favorite’ flavors of Fancy Feast. They have so many options that it can be confusing: gravy? Grilled? Loaf? Classic? Cuts? For the record, Ocean Whitefish and Tuna Feast Classic gets the NOMNOMNOMS award. He Hoovered an entire can at breakfast, then licked the plate. Just now he put away 3/4 of a second can for lunch. He also likes the tuna and shrimp. He’s doing really well, but gets prednisolone(anti-inflammatory) daily, and every two weeks we get a blood…