Six people died in the NIU shooting. The 7th was the shooters suicide. This will not stand.
And I am pissed, and I need to find the “people” out there from Westboro Baptist that are glad my peers died. They’re glad. I’ve started a peaceful protest over the phone. After some research I found their phone [...]

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Thankyou Dekalb police. Police were on the scene two minutes after the shooting. This is good response, thankyou men and women of the Dekalb police.
2/14/08
5:20 p.m.
Many of the shooting victims have been transported to Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb.
5:12 p.m.Police are confirming that the shooter is dead by a self-inflicted gunshot.
A press conference will be [...]

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I hope this goes down as the school shooting with no deaths. So far only the shooter is dead. Took his own life. I hope he fails. I hope the only casualty is the death he didn’t have the strength to commit himself to in private. Satan exists, and he lives in the heart of [...]

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18 people have just been admitted to the local hospital that were shot, ruthlessly in Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University, only a few buildings away from where I work. My school has just been shot up. This is where I live. This is where I go to school. I cannot believe this, at all. [...]

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This Javascript works with Firefox and IE7. The function is called by the iframe’s onLoad event. It pulls the scrollbar height from the frame and resizes the frame height to match it.
<script language=”text/javascript”>
<!–
function calcHeight()
{
var the_height=
document.getElementById(’submit_frame’).contentWindow.
document.body.scrollHeight;
document.getElementById(’submit_frame’).style.height=
(the_height+10)+”px”;
}
//–>
</script>
And use the following HTML for the iframe.
<iframe src=”frame.html” onLoad=”calcHeight();” scrolling=”no” id=”submit_frame” style=”width: 400px”></iframe>

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LDAP authentication through PHP can be quite handy. With methods such as this, authentication can be done against an LDAP user database. This is convenient if you are writing software that you would like to interface against an established user platform. I ran into this writing software for Northern Illinois University that had an established [...]

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It’s nice to be able to change the default thumbnail size for image uploads in Wordpress. I upload tons of big pictures and it’s nice if the thumbnail just fits within the content width. So here is an easy way to make this change in Wordpress. They have introduced the wp_thumbnail_max_side_length filter that can be [...]

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I just finished getting the Android SDK installed and running (with emulator) for the open source Google Phone dubbed Android. The SDK comes with a nice plugin for the open source Java IDE, Eclipse. After battling a little with the my installed Java SDKs, I was able to get the emulator and compiler working beautifully. [...]

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I’ve always used and loved Electric Sheep. This dynamic, genetic-algorithm driven fractal producing screen saver has left me breathless for the two years I’ve used it so far. Since my recent dive into recursive and multi-dimensional math I finally decided to look into this thing a little further. After reading about the technology used in [...]

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This awesome picture is brought to you by Om Nom Nom Nom. Who doesn’t love a funny picture of a laptop attacking a business lady.

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