Archive for December, 2009

Figured this was the fastest way to get the word out there since I’ve talked to a few readers through e-mail, comments, etc… and I just don’t have time to respond to anything other than customer questions at the moment. On the 26th I took my little girl to the ER. figuring she had the [...]

Twitter offers a handy dandy API for posting to itself.  It’s not hard to work with (you just have to organize your data the right way). You need to have a few variables set up prior to running this. $message  (what you are posting to twitter — a day or so ago I provided the [...]

I’ve gotten about a dozen e-mails about “WHY” I’m marketing with twitter.  The answer is “REAL TIME SEARCH”.  Google is changing the game (again) and showing recent results for keyword and phrase searches.  Guess where one of the favorite places is?  You guessed it – twitter! Twitter Promotion Script is what I’ve been using to [...]

Sometimes you need to convert a url to a new one on the fly.  Tinyurl offers a very easy to use API to do that.  You can do it complicated with curl or you can just use file_get_contents and make it a one line function. function ShortURL($ToConvert) { $short_url= file_get_contents(“http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=” . $ToConvert); return $short_url; } [...]

Well it’s snowing like crazy here and since my monster truck is in the shop I don’t think we will be going anywhere today.  Something about the two foot high drift into the side of the Mini-Van suggests that I should just sit tight today.  Yesterday I ported my twitter slamming script into a script [...]

So I had to hack together a little snippet today that would return just one single item from a rss feed and have it be random from the available items. (For example this snippet of code will return one random rss item from blackhatdigest – skipping the most recent entry) function load_xml_feed($location) { global $value1; [...]

Many many years ago I released a reciprocal linking script.  It was passed all over the net, and can probably be downloaded by anyone with just a little effort.  However, it’s VERY old now and there are a number of vulnerabilities in the script. There are numerous services and more powerful scripts out there today [...]

So the other day my kid comes to me and says she wants me to get her “zoo tycoon”.  It’s an older game and I could have bought it for just a few bucks somewhere – no big deal.  However I came across a “subscription” site that was really cool.  Basically you download and play [...]

Apparently I’m to blame for Scribbed changing format. It’s nice to be noticed. My post is here:  Black Hat Experimental Post – PDF Linking The other post is here: All My Fault Apparently I guess with my rambling thoughts I caused them to change – who says one person can’t make a difference? *yes this [...]