Below is a PHP script that makes crates a js file that has all the tags in a sorted array that looks like this

var tagsArray=new Array("BLACK","BLUE","CAPITAL A","CAPITAL B");

I have a cron that runs it every couple of hours on my server.

$myblog="lookingforglove"; //     modify this line     http://myblog.tumblr.com
$filename=$myblog.".js";
$stack = array();
$done=false;
$postsCounter=0;
$chunk = 50;
while (!$done)
{
	$url="http://".$myblog.".tumblr.com/api/read/json?callback=json&num=".$chunk."&start=".$postsCounter;
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
	$buffer = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	if (empty($buffer))
		{
    	$done=false;
		}
	else
		{
		$buffer= substr($buffer, 5,-3);
		$json_o=json_decode($buffer,true);
		$jpost= $json_o['posts'];

		foreach  ($jpost as $jpostItem)
			{
			$jtags=$jpostItem['tags'];
			foreach  ($jtags as $jtagsItem)
				{
				array_push($stack,strtoupper($jtagsItem));
				}
			}
		}
	$postsCounter=$postsCounter+sizeof($jpost);
	if (sizeof($jpost)< $chunk)   ///no more posts
		{ $done=true;}
}
$stack=array_unique($stack);
asort($stack);
$longString="var tagsArray=new Array(\"";
$longString.=implode("\",\"", $stack);
$longString.="\");";

$fp = fopen($filename, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $longString);
fclose($fp);

The javascript used in the theme where I want to have the tags. ]]> http://www.dubster.com/p/?feed=rss2&p=787 http://www.dubster.com/p/?p=777 http://www.dubster.com/p/?p=777#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:30:08 +0000 Dubi http://www.dubster.com/p/?p=777 Nation, it is not a secret that am a big fan of the Colbert report. As a matter of fact I professed that fandom in a form of a graphic. There is a comment in clip below that made me laugh very hard, Stephen Colbert is referring to the actor John Lithgow as sir John Lithgow. I like the fact that writers of the show choose to knight him because it worked well with the comic bit.

Last week the knighthood of a banker was stripped. He was not accused of a crime, He just made some bad business decisions that led to a loss of jobs. This odd incident reminded me of the clip above. For some reason in other times when John Lithgow was mentioned in the colbert report he was not referred to as Sir which made me sad. I think it fits with the shows hyper patriotic sentiment to mock the English monarchy. I wonder why the writers did not call him sir again. My wild guess is that John Lithgow objected. Why do I think that? Gut feeling.

Recently that meme got a pseudo political spin in the form of a tumblr blog called The 99% Behind The Money and I noticed that the image was getting more traffic.

Thank you for sending me the encoded message about how you are planning to overthrow the Chinese government and assassinate top communist party officials.

P.S. Mao sucks.

I originally wrote this few months ago. A friend commented on Facebook how annoyed she is by Chinese spam that is not even in English. I put it here as a public service.