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Comment on The State Of Elections In Oklahoma by E. Zachary Knight

E. Zachary Knight — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:48:24 +0000

Looks fine for me. Are you using this URL: http://ezknight.net/?feed=rss2

Comment on The State Of Elections In Oklahoma by source

source — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:31:18 +0000

When I open up your Rss feed it seems to be a ton of junk, is the issue on my side?

Comment on Update: Progress on the Tulsa World’s New Pay Wall by Jay

Jay — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:10:47 +0000

Anyone can still browse the World as long as you flush your cookies and dont sign in, but the 2nd week of March 2012 they made more changes that dont allow you to comment on stories (or even report abuse) without logging in with an Email address associated with a paid account.

Im sure I’m not the only paid subscriber that doesnt want his personal information tied so closely with comments, so no, Im not “activating” my “digital account” and giving up more privacy.

Comment on Mafia Wars Tools by monika

monika — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:02:43 +0000

zip dont extraxt

Comment on Netflix Does It Again by John

John — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:19:54 +0000

We noticed the same thing and it pisses me off. Why did the TV episode description need to change? My guess is lazy coding. Somewhere in making the update, they broke the part that recognizes the current selection is a TV show and fetches the description of the current episode and rather than fix the problem, they just band-aided it and removed the section of code that treats TV shows differently than movies. I honestly wish there were a way to downgrade.
Another thing I noticed was that it seems like it’s reloading the interface every single time I load it. I’m wondering if they’ve simply made it pull all of the elements from the web somewhere. That would explain the slow loading and partial display of certain elements sometimes. It would also allow them to update the interface without the hassle of going through Nintendo and updating the program on the console.
With that in mind, I’m going to do a little poking around with wireshark and a proxy to see if that is the case. If it is, perhaps I can figure out a way to use a proxy to reformat the incomming xml/html and fix any bugs or simply cache visual elements locally to speed up the load time.

Thanks for posting this… I was beginning to think I was the only one who noticed the changes.

Comment on Update: Progress on the Tulsa World’s New Pay Wall by Bluebird

Bluebird — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:51:46 +0000

Just click on the private browsing.. the go to your bookmarked TW. you can read and post as much as you want.

When the black screen come back.. get out of the private browsing.. then restart a new session.

Problem is if your have been blacklisted, (they will look at the IP) then punt you off again.

They pay some people to post guys.. It is a lame forum.

Comment on iPhone Developer Creates App Criticizing The iPhone; App Is Quickly Pulled by E. Zachary Knight

E. Zachary Knight — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:02:30 +0000

If the app was built to violate the app store guidelines on purpose, which it could very well have been, why did it make it through in the first place? If the enforcement of the rules that hit and miss, don’t you think that is part of the story as well.

But since you brought it up, how exactly does it clearly violate every single one of those four rules?

Comment on iPhone Developer Creates App Criticizing The iPhone; App Is Quickly Pulled by SteveKarr

SteveKarr — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:14:01 +0000

One thing a lot of people missed with this story is that is was a publicity stunt to get the media and bloggers to report on it to pump sales of the title on another platform. The title was built to infringe *on purpose* and be controvercial to give the best chance at creating a story that will buzz around so that the title would sell 100x more copies than it would have without the controversy. It is now pushing TONS of units on the Android store due to the media getting suckered into the scam and promoting the title for free.

Social media brings very interesting ways to market and make a buck

Comment on Countdown Till Jack’s Disbarment by Peggy Bradley

Peggy Bradley — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:16:07 +0000

I’m the web and game design instructor at EOC Tech in Choctaw, Oklahoma. I am interested in having you speak to my students in game design. I’ve had two students attend Collins, as you did. Please let me know if you would be interested.

Thank you

Comment on Update: Progress on the Tulsa World’s New Pay Wall by E. Zachary Knight

E. Zachary Knight — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:14:24 +0000

Not yet. I have not been able to work on it recently and it is a lot trickier than the New York Times Paywall. Makes me wonder how much the Tulsa world paid for theirs. NYTimes paid $40 million for something that can be bypassed by turing off javascript.