The inital response to Tarzan has been very good! I got a handful of comments and several messages through my contact form about it. Overwhelmingly, people want to see Tarzan localized for their country’s version of Amazon. Initially, I started digging around to start implementing support for the UK. After a while of digging, however, I found out that I’m using an older version of the Amazon Web Services API. Fantastic. The new version (AWS 4.0) supports full localization in all of Amazon’s countries (U.

My birthday is in November, and Christmas is in December, so the “holidays” go for about a month-and-a-half. Every year, I’d start getting these questions like “What do you want for your birthday? What do you want for Christmas?”. Of course, when you’re asked on the spot like that, you can never remember what it is that you want, and you end up like the kid from A Christmas Story telling people you want a football or something. So, a few years ago, I came up with the brilliant idea of making my wishlist available on my website somewhere.

Note to Self: I need to send a copy of these to my wife. Men ARE not mind readers. Learn to work the toilet seat. You’re a big girl. If it’s up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don’t hear us complaining about you leaving it down. Sunday sports. It’s like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be. Shopping is NOT a sport.

I quietly posted SimplePie 0.96 a few days ago, after having it in place in SimpleReader for about a week before that. So far, so good. For those of you currently using SimplePie, this new version makes more strides towards improving support for sucky feeds, tested support for PHP 5, and other bits of fine-tuning. You can download it, read the documentation for changes in this version, and report bugs and get support.

As I was digging through all of the MacWorld keynote coverage this morning, I came across the page for the new iPod shuffle. While I was reading, I saw this: …which was rather clever, I thought. As I got towards the bottom of the page however, I began to laugh out loud much to my co-workers’ bewilderment. This is what I read: It’s an amazing world we live in, isn’t it?

This was written by Manfred Staudinger from Vienna, Austria With a small, one-time change, Conditional Comments will work again and recognize the values 5.0 and 6.0, again; however, it will not recognize 5.5. How is it done? Go to the registry and look in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector\ for the key IE. Simply get rid of it by renaming it to zIE — that’s it! As I had installed IE 6.0, I looked into the registry for its version number “6.0.2800.1106” and found 7 entries in HKLM, 3 of them belonging to the key “Internet Explorer”: Wizard Version, Version and Build.

A snot-nosed three-year-old getting a hold of mommy’s stocking stuffer on Christmas Eve…