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It’s a well known fact that my spelling sometimes leaves something to be desired, but in the world of modern computers, this isn’t actually a problem. However, you need a spell checker that works. Wordpress uses tinyMCE as its editor, which includes a spell check button, so spelling on the blog shouldn’t be a problem: but it is.

For apparantly no reason at all, the spell check module of tinyMCE fails time, and time again, but returns the spelling errors in the error message. After some googling, I came across http://ruxable.com/2009/01/wordpress-spellcheck-ssl-error/ and as a result http://kennyocracy.com/2008/10/02/solution-to-tinymce-fatal-error-in-googlespell/ which indicated what was wrong. The result is really quite simple. A matter of making sure that CURL is installed for PHP. A useful little fix for an annoying problem!

It seems as though I have been quite lax at blogging this year. A full six months have passed and I have not written a single entry. Frequent visitors will have no doubt noticed the change in design, and with it brings a new opportunity to blog more frequently. Much has happened since February, but I will start updating readers with tidbits from my research and other happenings as they come and go.

Dominic White recently blogged about his current political leanings and how they had changed since 2004. What I found most interesting was that he links to a chart showing the leanings of #clug which is somewhat representative of the South African geek community.

What led me to retake the test myself (I first took it in 2004, but don’t remember the results) so as to compare it with #clug. Dom observes that most people are in the bottom left quadrant, a trend which I seem to have continued. My scores are as follows:

Economic Left/Right: -0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36