Asymptomatic

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Brand Addiction

How difficult is it to avoid branding? Take a quiz.

One of the things that we tried to avoid with Abby was exposing her to too much generic children’s television. This isn’t really an issue of “too much TV”, which is a valid yet different discussion. What we really didn’t want is to have to hear requests too soon for a room decorated in a SpongeBob Squarepants motif. If you take a look at some of her classmates (in the 3-4 year range), they might as well have brands stamped on their forehead.

Bad Spelling

I had a great idea in the shower this morning.

As you may or may not know, Windows servers don’t have access (please correct me if I’m wrong) to the aspell spelling resources of PHP that Linux servers do. As a result, many of the spell-checkers that one might install for WordPress just won’t work on Windows.

Here’s my idea: Create aplugin that exposes an XMLRPC method for spelling. The method would accept an array of unique words and return an array of misspelled words, each with an array of suggested replacements.

So long, image-replaced H3s!

I switched the site over to sifr. This is a method for replacing headings in HTML with a flash applet that has a specialized font.

The instructions included in the archive are fairly complete. A couple examples of the more advanced parameters of the sIFR.replaceElement function would be nice.