Browsing the blog archives for December, 2009

Query YouTube Video XML Data

You might know that one can obtain XML information about a YouTube video by its ID, using the YouTube API (basically downloading an XML document at a URL). The URL to do this is: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEO_ID replacing VIDEO_ID with the YouTube ID String. Example: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/iZ_wNWSV-aQ (Click it to see the XML data on a real video).
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Disabling Apache’s Mod Security Rules

I tried upgrading phpMyAdmin to a new directory on a server, not using the built-in cPanel environment. It installed fine, but I couldn’t run certain SQL queries like DROP TABLE tablename; It would generate an Internal Server Error 500.
After some testing I realized that if I simply tried to access any url with the string [...]

Honda Fit 2007 5-Speed Miles Per Gallon MPG

I have recorded my Honda Fit’s MPG since Sept. 2009 and compiled a speadsheet graph of the results:

You can see that the closer we come to winter, the less the MPG. Still, from these results, it was an average of 37 MPG. I drive 12 miles to and from work, 5 days a week.

Maine Thanksgiving

Here’s a video from my Thanksgiving time in Maine this year.