It’s a bugfix release — it should now handled UTF-8 characters properly.
The issue was in the Magpie layer, and if anyone’s wondering how to handle it in their code, the answer that seemed to work for me was:
define("MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING", "UTF-8");
define("MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING", "UTF-8");
$rss = fetch_rss($rss_url);
Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
Some very salient points about attempting to model how you think your users will think vs. using technology to capture how they’re actually thinking.
A very nice bookmarklet implementation by Andy Carr of Koi Vinh’s background image grid for Web design.
From this Sundays’s AJC editorial page:
If you don’t have your photo ID, you should not be able to vote. Voting is a privilege, not a right.
— Republican Mike Daniel, who voted at Dunwoody High School in DeKalb County
I’m no Constitutional scholar, but the 15th Amendment, 19th Amendment, 23rd Amendment, 24th Amendment, 26th Amendment and the Votings Right Act of 1965 pretty much make it clear that it is a right.
You’re free to have whatever opinion you want about Georgia voter ID issue, but at least get the facts right when you make an argument.
Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer
My favorite: "Specifications are for the weak and timid!"
By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)