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enabling CORS on Apache

Many people struggle to get CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) enabled on their site to allow transmission of JSON, XML, or some other sort of data from one script to another, running on different domains. Simply adding Header always set Access-Control-Allow-Origin “*” 

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email the entire Wisconsin state legislature if you want

Ever wanted to send a message to every Wisconsin state senator and representative in the legislature? Here are their email addresses:

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results of a recent wardrive

During a recent Sunday afternoon cruise, I collected the names and locations of all the WiFi routers in range of my car. Some of the access point names are creative, listed here. (I omitted the many openly vulgar ones one would

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user experience

Remember when designing anything: users will find the most efficient way to use your product, even if it’s not how you intended. Test your product by pretending you have no time to deal with it.

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Internet Explorer use vs. murder rate

Just sayin’…

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comma separated list of United States counties

In case you need a complete CSV list of US counties for your next… killer app or whatever: united-states-counties.csv.zip

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the real originaldougal

At originaldougal, we care about your privacy. Your connection to originaldougal.com is now secured with 256-bit Secure Socket Layer encryption. The connection uses TLS 1.0, encrypted using AES_256_CBC, with SHA1 for message authentication and DHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism. In short,

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internet & population

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