A few thousand of my hits every day are coming from some little geeks using an old web cam shot of my buddy’s as their avatar in forums. It’s quite funny, because I think they think that they’re actually linking to a different image. It’s pretty annoying, so I implemented scriptygoddess’ code to protect images by modifying .htaccess.
From the monthly archives:
March 2005
WordPress Mod: DropCaps
The chances of me ever using the WordPress str QuickTag are pretty slim, so I replaced it with a drop-capper. (The T in this paragraph should appear as a dropcap for you if you’re using a browser that handles CSS properly.)
Pretty nifty, I think.
Want to do it?
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Ornithological Question
Do you think at ornithological conventions the phrase, “He got a feather up his ass about it,” is used often?
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WordPress Mod: Amazon QuickTags
I wanted to add nifty little Amazon links to my posting window … so I did. Grab my zipped version of quicktags.js and you can, too. This is the javascript file that builds the row of buttons above your posting window (e.g. str, em, del, etc.) My version adds two buttons: one for quick-linking to an item at Amazon via its ASIN and one for quick-linking to an Amazon search.
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Starship Captain Smackdown
Okay. This is just ridiculous. The Starship Captain Smackdown is an awesome display of a spreadsheet on an HTML page, and ranking starship commanders is a noble goal. But you’ve got Solo ranked below the new Adama? Please. Even the old Adama was cooler than the new Adama. And sure, Galactica is the Samuel L. Jackson of spaceships … but voting anything even on par with the Falcon is just plain blasphemy.
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Simpsons WP Plugin
I spent a few minutes goofing off tonight and grabbed an ultra-nifty Simpsons Plugin for WordPress. I hacked it a smidge and added about twenty more quotes. Trés cool. It’s amazing that there are just no decent Simpsons images on the ‘net. I seem to remember FOX going nuts on copyright violation a few years ago. It’s hard to imagine that they are that ruthless. How could they have wiped the entire Internet of good Simpsons graphics? What’s even harder to imagine is why the “official” Simpsons site would be so incredibly craptacular — all Flash and useless content; they even incorrectly used “lose” instead of “loose” in one spot. Aye carumba.
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Chris O’Brien
Does anyone have any idea where Chris O’Brien is? The last address I have for him in New Zealand — on Clifford Street — is apparently no longer valid. His Christmas / birthday / New Year’s card was returned however-many thousand miles back to me as “Return to Sender — Not at This Address”.
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iPod Your Car
If you’ve been suffering with a pathetic iTrip or getting by with the barely acceptable Belkin TuneCast II, then you will love the AirPlay FM transmitter for iPod from XtremeMac. I don’t know how they did it, but it packs a much more powerful transmitter into a device about a fifth the size of the other two. It’s all hardware-based, like the Belkin one, so you don’t have to worry about installing any clunky, stupid software or playlists onto your iPod to get it to work. If you’re in LA try 107.9 104.7 — that’s what’s been working the best for me.
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Death by Snowball
What could be more wholesome than a good old-fashioned snowball fight? In Scotland, however, a romp in the snow turned lethal when a 10-year-old boy died after being crushed by a giant ball of snow that rolled down a hill and engulfed him. Said a local minister, “It seems there was a giant snowball the boys had made themselves. Apparently it rolled and unfortunately Peter was caught under it.” Police have confirmed there was no foul play. “The boys had just gone out there to play and then something like this happens. It’s very difficult to find words to explain it all,” added the minister.
from Wired magazine
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