My email, me@askthefool.com has been plastered all over the internet over the past four years. I get an inordinate amount of junk mail. I’m not talking about the typical 5-10 pieces a day, but rather 600-700 pieces of junk mail an hour. I usually check my email about 15-20 times a day and always turn [...]

My first publicly released WordPress plugin. I’m sure there are others that do the same thing, but I wanted a stepping stone into the plugin API. This provided the perfect reason to experiment with it. An example of the output can be seen on the homepage. The plugin consists of 4 functions: 1) askWPCount_postCount() Returns [...]

With PHP 5.0, SimpleXML makes working with XML extremely easy. Howerver, many hosts currently don’t support PHP 5.0. I don’t offer PHP 5.0 yet because my web control panel, Plesk, dosen’t fully support it. Thus, when I was designing the Photography section of this site I needed an easy way to deal with the XML [...]