Archive for August, 2009

JoeBlogs – Typo in dummy URL fixed

By | August 31, 2009 | Development | 1 Comment

I’ve recently had a few comments that the JoeBlogs wrapper wasn’t working – and they were getting an “invalid response” or more specifically “Response XML not valid XML-RPC – missing methodResponse element.”

It seems that I had a typo in my comments in JoeBlogs.TestHarness/Program.cs on line 15:

//typically http://www.yourdomain.com/xmlprc.php (if your wordpress blog is installed in root dir)

The problem, is the xmlprc.php – this should be xmlrpc.php.

Those of you that copy pasted / uncommented out that line, would be executing requests against a file that didn’t exist on your server!

I’ve changed this typo, and committed to Codeplex: revision #27138

Thanks to Felix for pointing this out!

Yahoo Term Extractor API Discontinued

By | August 14, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

A couple of days ago Yahoo announced two of its search services will be discontinued on August 31st 2009.

Annoyingly, one of those is the Term Extraction API
Which means my Windows Live Writer Auto Tag Generator plug-in will simply cease to work.

Important Announcement: The Term Extraction Web Search service will be discontinued on August 31, 2

So, what can you do.

Well, according to a few posts on twitter, Zemanta seems like a suitable replacement.

I’ll check this out, and write up a post on it soon, in the mean time, there’s an introduction here.

Fake Ed Hardy Belt On Ebay

By | August 13, 2009 | Personal, Scams | No comments

I’m a recent fan of Ed Hardy “stuff”

T-shirts, and belts mainly.

As with every latest trend, these are obviously available on eBay, however a lot of items offered here are fake.

I generally try to be careful when purchasing clothing on eBay. For example, I’ll always email the seller for verification that the item is genuine.

I wanted an Ed Hardy belt. Apart from www.edhardyshop.com, there aren’t all that many places to get genuine items online, let alone genuine items online, in the UK that will deliver by August 14th (day before my trip to Ibiza)

fake-ed-hardy-belt-ebay-ad 
So, the belt I found on eBay was certainly tempting.
I contacted the seller, for verification that it was in fact real, and had this response:

Of course, i know the offer may seem too good to be
true, however you can judge from the pictures i have
provided that this belt is authentic.

- iain123football

So, all was well. A reasonable (if a little low, if I’m honest, in hindsight) price, and located in the UK.

I purchased the item, paid immediately, and had delivery a couple of days later.

I was immediately sceptical about the item. The print just didn’t look right.
I posted up a load of photos I took of the item to

To confirm my suspicions, I posted up the eBay ad on well known counterfeit busting forum Authentic Forum – www.authenticforum.com to see what the experts there had to say:

http://www.authenticforum.com/other-denim-brands-authenticity-checks/146584-ed-hardy-belt-auth-check.html

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