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So I finally got around to setting up Facebook Connect on my site this weekend. Now not only can you like all of my posts individually, but you can login and comment on them via your Facebook profile, and even post your comments to your user page. All this using a bit of FBML, and a nifty widget from Sociable.

I’d like to try and integrate some more aspects in the near future, such as my profile picture, and some better semantic implementation of the Open Graph Protocol.

Now, I just need to figure out how to align my like buttons on my blog with the same URLs that get aggregated to my Facebook page…

Had to grab the absolute URL of a JSP today in order to pass it to the Open Graph Protocol for Facebook. I had to set it up to include any query strings as well, and here’s what I came up with, using a bit of inline Java. Enjoy!

String url = (request.getRequestURL()).toString();
  if (request.getQueryString() != null) {
   url += '?' + request.getQueryString();
  }

I think so. Also, I believe you have dysentery.

Yes, The Walking Dead is over until next October. I was so enthralled by the show however, that I decided to dust off my pen and ink and get my own little homage to the show together. It was a short time after this decision that I realized I wanted to put my first poster together. After a bit of research, I stumbled upon this rare gem:

Apparently a movie called the Walking Dead, starring none other than Boris Karloff, was shot in 1936. I’d found my muse. I would make a poster for the new show, that paid homage to the poster of old.

I still have a good bit of tweaking to do to the final poster, especially to the colors, but I’d like to try and get a screen print together sometime soon. Maybe even sell a few prints. If anyone would want one, please drop me a line.

I happened upon this Flickr feed today when perusing my google reader. Has some pretty choice material:

Don Solo’ Flickr Feed

This is Six Flags New Orleans, which was closed in 2005 prior to Hurricane Katrina. It will never be reopened.

This video, done by photographer Teddy Smith, just plain creeps me out. I’m expecting something horrible around the next turn, and the music is spot on. Someone shoot a horror movie here before they tear it down!