Archive for October, 2008

  • PHP SOAP client giving “Error Fetching http headers”

    Summary: PHP’s SOAP client was throwing an extremely unhelpful error: Error Fetching http headers. It turns out that it was a simple case of a slow SOAP server, and increasing the default_socket_timeout in php.ini to 120 fixed it.

    Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
  • My first half-marathon

    Toronto Marathon was this morning, which I ran the half-marathon part of. It was a long day, and my knees no longer work.

    Sunday, October 19th, 2008
  • Election season in North America

    Two sites that might help you decide how to vote in the upcoming Canadian election:

    How’d They Vote?: Want to know what your incumbent MP has been doing in Ottawa? This site will tell you what bills they have proposed, how they’ve voted, and what they’ve said in Parliament. Find out what your MP actually does.
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    Saturday, October 4th, 2008