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Administrative

What did Netninja look like in 2009?

December 31, 2009

This post is a bla­tant ripoff of Rick Turoczy’s Sil­i­con Florist word cloud, but that’s how memes work, right?  I made two dif­fer­ent 2009 word clouds for Net­ninja: one for just titles and one for full post con­tent.  I’ll get into the “how” after the images.
This first image is of just titles.  I guess you […]

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Netninja site changes: Hipster PDA & Code

December 29, 2009

Back­ground
I have talked about my rela­tion­ship with the Hip­ster PDA for years.  It is a sort of love/hate thing.  I find that the basics are invalu­able.  I really love all the beau­ti­ful lit­tle tem­plates and forms that peo­ple have made for the 3″ x 5″ form fac­tor.  Alas, I find that most — if not […]

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Snazzy-Archives, Filtered

November 28, 2009

Note that this post is a dupli­cate of the Snazzy-Archives, Fil­tered project page, here at Net­ninja, and copied into the blog.  It has been inserted here to make it part of the blog time­line, RSS, and what­not so that it gets noticed.  Com­ments are dis­abled on this post but enabled on the project page, so […]

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Pardon our dust –or– Netninja on Thesis

November 22, 2009

As you can tell by the ubiq­ui­tous ‘90s-era non­trans­par­ent ani­mated shov­eler graphic at right, Netninja.com has been under con­struc­tion this week­end.  Every­thing looks fine now, but this is a warn­ing that there may still be some loose cov­er­plates hid­ing spark­ing wires.  You see — today, I installed the The­sis theme engine for Word­Press.  What does […]

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Goodbye, my LiveJournal friends, for-EVAR!

November 15, 2009

Yes, this post’s title invokes and evokes rule 1 of the Blog­donts that sub­sti­tute posted years ago:
1.  [Do not] announce your depar­ture or hia­tus to the world. “Good­bye my Inter­net Friends For­ever” is always a mis­take. If you want to leave or go on a break, just do so. When you announce it, peo­ple feel that […]

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Letters, oh we get letters

October 29, 2009

Back in the day, Netninja.com was, beyond a doubt, clas­si­fied as a hacker web­site.  There was sam­ple code to do nasty stuff.  I posted research into Win­dows secu­rity, magstripe for­mats, smart­card pinouts, and the like.  There were even a few das­tardly plu­g­ins for “Back Ori­fice” and “Back Ori­fice 2K”, a “remote admin­is­tra­tion” tool from Cult […]

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The psychology of Wordpress upgrades & plugins

October 19, 2009

Word­Camp Port­land was last month.  Although Word­Press 2.8 has made upgrad­ing one-click easy, there was a lot of shared sen­ti­ment about upgrades and plu­g­ins.  These beliefs boil down into two groups and are sum­ma­rized with the fol­low­ing statements:

“I don’t run Word­Press with any plu­g­ins what­so­ever because an upgrade to the core of Word­Press could break […]

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Ninja Me!

August 13, 2009

In the last cou­ple of days, the inter­net world (and more specif­i­cally the Twit­ter world) has been all up-in-arms about the upcom­ing demise of the tr.im URL short­en­ing ser­vice (later fol­lowed by the backpedal­ing of the news).
You prob­a­bly already know the type of ser­vice.  It takes a really, really, really long URL like http://example.com/catalog/category/widgets?productid=12345&view=7&commentid=8675309&areyoureally=readingthis&mode=88 and shortens […]

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Tagging the 2001 archives

February 15, 2009

I have had a blog for a while — since 2001, to be exact.  It was not always Word­press, but started out hosted on Live­Jour­nal.  In April of 2007, I migrated the posts (but not the com­ments, unfor­tu­nately) to the new sys­tem.  The migra­tion went as best as could be expected, but I later learned […]

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Migrating from LiveJournal to WordPress

January 6, 2009

As many peo­ple no doubt are aware: Live­Jour­nal laid off over half their staff.  20 out of 28 peo­ple were let go.  Con­se­quently, I have read a lot of people’s LJ blog entries that are hys­ter­i­cal freak­outs.  I’m not sure it’s time for peo­ple to freak out yet, but it prob­a­bly is time to think […]

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Are Flickr Friends Electric?

December 14, 2008

I just real­ized that I had a huge num­ber of peo­ple on Flickr marked as a “Con­tact” that should prob­a­bly have been marked as “Friend” due to the way per­mis­sions work over there.  I do not know if Flickr noti­fies peo­ple when they get upgraded from a con­tact to a friend or what that notification […]

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Administrivia — no more MySpace cross-posting

October 4, 2008

I am no longer syn­di­cat­ing my blog over to MySpace.  The Word­Press plu­gin I have for that is just too problematic–often work­ing suc­cess­fully, but report­ing error, caus­ing my edit­ing soft­ware to com­pletely freak out.  It is still being syn­di­cated over to the Live­Jour­nal feed brianenigma_rss and Face­book.
As always, the best way to read it is […]

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