I’ve been trying to compile the gnupg PECL extension on a live server and have had no end of trouble. The limited documentation that accompanies the majority of PECL extensions is rather annoying. In the end what worked for me was compiling the PECL extension statically into PHP.
The gnupg extensions is quite nice and a [...]

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Mike, one of the original SoCal bloggers, has bowed out of the blogging world. On the frontpage of his site he has posted a brief farewell citing the all elusive “they”:
They say a dead blog is worse than no blog at all and frankly, I agree with the ever-elusive “they”, just this once.
Around the time [...]

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There are still email subscription forms on prominent sites that don’t consider a .info domain a valid TLD.
Here’s a form on the Fujitsu site that exhibits this behaviour.
For a TLD that has been around since 2001, it seems like folks should be able to consider them valid by now!

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Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’
I always had a funny feeling that this was the case — I prefer leaning back in my chair while I work. Now I have a good reason!

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We reside on the 15th floor of an apartment complex and our nearest balcony (can you say fire haven? - pics coming shortly) is on the 14th floor, a pleasant stroll down 1 flight of stairs. This evening I decided to take some pictures to capture my view and share it with the general public. [...]

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