Due to the inclement weather, we are postponing the meeting on 1/5/2010 until 1/19/2010. The time (11-1) and location (Whole Hog Bentonville) will remain the same.

After adding the twitterlution plugin to my blog, I thought it would be a good idea to make the blog a little more mobile friendly. So after doing some research, I came across Mike Industries' post about making your site mobile friendly and Lightweight Device-Detection in PHP post.

After some creative combining, I have updated this blog to display in a different format if you access the blog from a mobile device. I know that the site is much more lightweight now, but the format needs tweaked to be more usable. That being said, here is what I did.

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I received a number of these messages across various email account that I have. All the messages have the same basic format.

Here is the subject of this scam email:

This email was supposedly sent by:

Here is the body of the email:

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January’s meeting will be held at Whole Hog Café in Bentonville (1400 Southeast Walton Boulevard, Bentonville, AR) on January 5th starting at 11:00.

We will cover Chapter business and then have a presentation by Vernon Habersetzer.

Vernon will be presenting a PowerPoint slide show titled, “Digital Forensics – A Primer”. The material covers the basics of digital forensics, including best practices, evidence handling, evidence preservation, and real world scenarios. Vernon will be bringing some forensic tools to display as well.

I finally got around to adding the twitterlution plugin from Lee Turner and it works great. One thing I noticed was the long URLs from my blog being sent to twitter. Other than that, I am extremely happy with the plugin.

I wondered how hard it would be to add a URL shortener (bit.ly in this case) to the plugin. It turned out to be fairly straight forward.

First I went and got a userid and apikey to bit.ly

Then I searched for an example of making a call to bit.ly from php and I found this example by James Cridland

Then I added the Services_JSON module to my web server

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