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Re: Santana: Disney Fireworks Impact on Neighborhood Health Needs Study

peterwarnock — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 20:28:58 -0000

Norberto, I've really liked Voice of OC lately, but this is a bit one-sided. I lived at the corner of Walnut and Cerritos for many years with nothing but a parking lot between the Disneyland fireworks and my condo. The Disneyland fireworks were not an issue, but the hours of illegal fireworks were. I raised two children from birth and had two dogs. For the residents getting the ash fallout at Harbor and Vermont, it would nice if they got complimentary car washes at the corner gas station there.

Re: Consumer Finance Watchdog Wants Your Private Info from Big Banks

peterwarnock — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:18:11 -0000

The consumer should be able to opt in and out.

Re: Credit Card Processing Fees: There’s a Good Chance Your Bank Account Will Take a Hit at the Register

peterwarnock — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:33:36 -0000

I get the cash price when I use the Shell MC at Shell Gas. I save 5% when I use the Target REDcard at Target. Use the right card at the right place and never pay fees, but always make sure you have the money you're spending in the bank to avoid revolving debt.

Re: T-Mobile Continues Unlocked iPhone Readiness Campaign

peterwarnock — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:02:15 -0000

Yeah. I'm thinking they're launching the 1900 band and rolling out the 4s. Verizon, AT&T, & maybe Sprint will get the 5.

Re: C code to convert UTF-8 to HTML entities

peterwarnock — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:25:31 -0000

Here's the source code for PHP's htmlentities function.

Maybe it has what you're looking for?

http://git.php.net/?p=php-s...

Re: Flipboard: Manage your social accounts with this free godly app

peterwarnock — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:32:56 -0000

It's my favorite app on both the iPad and Android. Twitter Lists make it really interesting.

Re: WordPress Plugin: Page-Links Single Page Option

peterwarnock — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:35:04 -0000

I would like the ability to manage the show_globally option from the "Reading Settings" page.

Re: Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Are Unconstitutional, Judge Rules | Healthland | TIME.com

peterwarnock — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:40:03 -0000

"I'm betting even you don't even understand exactly what happens"

I know exactly what happens. I lost both of my grandparents because to illnesses caused by cigarettes.

I was shown graphic pictures in high school--the healthy pink vs gray lung, the addictiveness of crack--I still made poor decisions because the perspective of a teenager is different from that of an educated adult.

Re: Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Are Unconstitutional, Judge Rules | Healthland | TIME.com

peterwarnock — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:05:18 -0000

The smokers' health fund would be raided by our politicians to fund contraception and abortions.

Re: Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Are Unconstitutional, Judge Rules | Healthland | TIME.com

peterwarnock — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:02:07 -0000

I don't want my children nor myself to have to see these graphic pictures in ads or on packs littered on the ground.

If they don't want teenagers to smoke, enforce tougher consequences for the adults who supply them.

Teenagers know the consequences. Find a way to steer them into thinking they're being rebellious with something less lethal.

Re: An Open Letter to Paula Deen

peterwarnock — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:04:55 -0000

If she didn't cook like that, she wouldn't be the celebrity she is, so she wouldn't have any authority to lead people to healthier eating. She never makes the claim that she's cooking healthy, so she shouldn't have any responsibility for the health of others. It's unfortunate that she has that disease. However, her show is entertaining—even if I never eat her food.

Re: Marketers Need to Stop Putting the Cart Before the Horse

peterwarnock — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:30:21 -0000

I have a degree in Marketing and a career in development. It's a constant challenge to make promises that we can keep and deliver on those promises--I see both sides of it. Fortunately, I work for a company that focuses on just that. Sometimes we release half-baked ideas, but we position them as that. It's important that concepts be positioned as concepts. Too often concepts or prototypes are labeled as the finished products.

Re: Wait. A Teenager Made a Mistake? Wow. I’m Astonished!

peterwarnock — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:08:02 -0000

If you're an old fogie, what's that make me?

He'll be terribly embarassed for the next few days, but it'll blow over. I imagine he's learned his lesson and then some.

Great post, btw.

Re: Who gets their news from Google? (Scripting News)

peterwarnock — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:12:27 -0000

I go to Google News to compare sources. By taking his news out, I'm one less set of eyeballs he'll have. There are plenty of alternatives.

Re: Let the blogging begin! (Scripting News)

peterwarnock — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:25:07 -0000

It's a changing of the guard. You're the patriarch now.

Re: Why Blogging Still Matters

peterwarnock — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:40:07 -0000

If for no other reason, blogging allows you to expand a thought and include context. Sometimes 140 characters just isn't enough, so blogging and linking to the post via tweet makes sense.

Re: Two-way Search (Scripting News)

peterwarnock — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:39:11 -0000

Hunch (@hunch) and Aardvark (@vark) are a few iterations away from similar solutions. Like your idea, Hunch gathers as many pieces of information about you as possible and makes a statistical guess about what answer you're looking for. Aardvark, while not quite real-time, routes your question to another user interested in answering it. The answerer has the opportunity to ask questions to gain greater insight.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

peterwarnock — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:09:48 -0000

Mike, log out of Digg and try again. The first week DiggBar was released, publishers were outraged that the address bar was masked. so Digg compromised by performing a 301 for users not logged in, including search engine spiders. Now that thousands of links have been published, there is a serious amount of PageRank weight at stake.

They can change the behavior moving forward, but not on links published prior to the change.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

peterwarnock — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:22:30 -0000

If you are logged out of Digg, it now redirects to Digg instead of using the DiggBar; the old behavior was a 301-redirect. One inbound link from Digg is far less valuable than the collective hundreds of links from twitter, blogs, and other directories.

Re: Confirmed: Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links

peterwarnock — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:14:45 -0000

The analogy is a little off, because the landing page ultimately points to the destination; it would be more like a detour or layover. However, when they released the service, the policy was to 301-redirect users that we're logged into Digg so that spiders would apply the full weight to the final destination, so this change is a little unsettling.

I can understand why they did it. The click-thru/digg ratio is terrible. They shouldn't change the behavior on existing links though.

Re: How will Twitter make money? (Scripting News)

peterwarnock — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:54:04 -0000

Doesn't Twitter already make money from US telecoms by encouraging users to increase consumption of SMS?