Here’s a couple of links worth reading that pertainto Facebook and SEO/SEM…

• How to Make a Fan Page in Facebook
• Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!

Warner Music correctly identified their unlicensed music in a couple of YouTube videos I posted for our Heath High School reunion in 2008. Videos are still there, but muted. Grumble. Will have to get some new music for those sometime soon.

• Here…
• Here…
• Here…
• And here…

Another year, another loss. Matt Selman sums it up for me.

Found this link at CNN interesting today. From the article…

“It is not just coffee that can lead to caffeine withdrawal. While a 6-ounce cup of brewed coffee contains about 100 milligrams of caffeine, tea and cola have about 40 milligrams each, a bar of milk chocolate has about 10 milligrams and hot chocolate has about 7 milligrams.”

After installing FCK Editor 2.639b for Joomla 1.5, I was getting this error when attempting to edit an article:

“[path]/plugins/editors/fckstyles_template.xml was not found on this server.”

Naturally, it was a permissions issue related to the hosting environment. Full description of the known issue is here:

http://www.joomlafckeditor.com/forum?func=view&id=1544&catid=8#1544
(registration required)

Crunchy bits follow…

Re:server didn’t send back a proper XML response?
Apache web servers configured to use PHP suEXEC or suPHP will deny the execute permission on all files and folders that are world writable – 0777 and 0666. Which means your PHP scripts won’t run for any user in which the files are Chmod to 0666 or 0777. That is why it is recommended to use the values, 755 and 0644 for folders and files respectively. In most cases this will work; as the user, Apache will be running under will be the owner of the files and folders for your Joomla installation.
If you are not using suPHP or neither running PHP as CGI then Apache will be running under the ‘Nobody’ account or some other equivalent. That means your files will have to be set to 0666(‘rw-rw- rw-‘), and in the case of using PHP to create new files in a directory, the folder will have to be set to 0777(‘rwxrwxrwx’).

I set the following directories to 777:

• /plugins/editors
• /plugins/editors/fckeditor

and the following files to 666:

• /plugins/editors/fckeditor.class.php
• /plugins/editors/fckeditor.legacy.php
• /plugins/editors/fckeditor.php
• /plugins/editors/fckeditor.xml

Voila! =)

To resolve ASP.NET CS0433 compile errors resulting from a changed code-behind, simply do the following:

1. rename the Bin directory (may need to wait for the processes inside to finish talking to it)
2. visit page in question (will result in an error, just ignore)
3. rename Bin directory back to Bin
4. visit page in question again

Ta da!. =)

Thanks go out to David Woods for this solution.

Man, I really love Lore Sjöberg’s sense of humor. =)

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2008/07/alttext_0730

Great Times piece today on Barack Obama’s time as a professor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Saturday afternoon I seriously sprained my ankle. Thought it was broken (made a crunching/popping sound) at first and it was basically the single most painful thing I can remember. =) Iced and elevated it for the rest of the day/night, then went to doctor Sunday morning, walking with the help of a big walking stick I happened to have. X-ray showed nothing broken. Got easier to get around during the day, but at night it had swollen alot more and was brusing. Got an Ace bandage on it and by morning the swelling had gone down from a softball to a tennis ball, but the old swelling had just moved into the top of my foot. Doh! Hard to move today so I’m home from work. Probably make it in tomorrow.

Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since high school, but it has. Had our reunion this past weekend and it was a great time! Back in 1988, during the last few days of school I brought a video camera and shot the old school (it’s since been rebuilt). Check out the videos here:

http://youtube.com/user/Bradaroonie