Bill Burcham’s memeRocket

by Enzo D. (Zoen)

I love my Macs. But dang it, I’ve encountered a couple annoying Leopard problems that have significantly impacted their value.

First, my old iMac won’t connect via WPA2 to my Airport Extreme since upgrading to Leopard. What am I gonna do—run an ethernet cable across my living room floor. Or should I say: across my wife’s living room floor?!?

Second, this week, my MacBook Pro stopped waking from sleep mode. The solution is simple but devastating - simply turn off Bluetooth…um, and then you don’t have Bluetooth.

What is going on here? I’ve had years of happiness with my OS X Macs. And now I’ve got two men down (out of three). Only the trusty PowerBook is unaffected by any of this.

’sup Apple? Did you get ahead of yourselves with the sheer pace of coolness?

Chris Griego got it right when he said:

Before, I would hear Xerox and think of copiers. Now, I hear Xerox and think of copiers and awful logos.

by akashgoyal

If you use your WordPress blog as an OpenID (as I do) via a link rel=’openid.delegate’ tag (that delegates to an external OpenID service) then you may be locked out of your accounts after upgrading to WordPress 2.3.x.

Wordpress 2.3 introduced a new feature called URL canonicalization that turns requests to foo.com into www.foo.com. The justification is that it helps normalize statistics gathering in some cases (though in my experience, Google Analytics needed no such help).

But what happens if you were using an OpenID like foo.com on a (OpenID ‘consumer’) site like pibb.com is that after the WP 2.3.2 upgrade you actually end up authenticating the id www.foo.com (not foo.com). So you can never get back into your foo.com account at pibb.com. Got that?

Update 4:49pm:

My initial solution was this nifty one-line disable canonical redirects plugin from Mark Jaquith. Simply drop that in your WP plugins and enable it and you’ll no longer suffer URL canonicalization. But a simpler approach was to simply set the blog URL to http://meme-rocket.com in general options. Now I’m redirecting www.meme-rocket.com to meme-rocket.com and all’s well.