Items that apply to ‘interesting’ subjects in my Real Life.
Would you believe, on the eve of my next string of vacation days, *and* a few days shy of flying over to see my father…
Another tooth gets chipped. On a soft bagel – the last thing I’d imagine it happening on.
Argh! *stomps off to talk to dentist again*
–TSK
User Friendly had a nice jab at SCO today. The laugh I got was well worth the week I’ve had.
Probably the fact I’m a fan of Sid Dabster; The dude reminds me of my childhood days of trying to do things with computers folks thought were impossible. ;-)
–TSK
EDIT – I also find it deeply ironic that when I want to post something this week, access to the weblog is acting up. Unsure if that’s from work or Bluehost. Ah well…
Ack, lots happened the past week…
Well, for starters, happy Thankgiving to those in the U.S. I’m spending today by myself; Don’t feel bad at me, we normally do this as I have work tonight. My family’s meetup will occur sometime on Saturday. :) I’ll be using the time this afternoon and evening to gut/clean the apartment and get some things sorted out for tax prep next year.
Hamlet at the New World Notes weblog posted my submission for a Second Life series he calls ‘World From My Window.’ It’s the island of Numbakulla of course, which I still do support and some janitorial stuff for (even if it was re-tooled for no-build). He’s cited the article/page I wrote up months ago, which I sent the link for. Let’s see if this increases both readership here and visitors on the island…
And now, we get to libsecondlife and the fallout from the CopyBot mess. Even though I did little to no dev work, I’ve stepped away from not only developer status but from the code as a whole. Not gone near an SVN download in weeks now, and with recent changes at work its one less thing to worry about anyway. I have no account at the new developer site (BerliOS), and probably will not for now; There are, um, possible ‘issues’ from work that could arise from being associated with the group too deeply at this point.
Anyway, I’m content with just sharing channel ‘ops’ status on the three IRC channels now dedicated to the project (primarily just sitting to get the channel bot auto-opped in case of re-connect, but I also chime in on discussions as a ‘neutral’ third party).
OK, enough rambling, off to cleaning. ;)
–TSK
[EDIT – Wierd, I lost a linking tag.]
Tracking down a Widget bug. ;)
–TSK
I had some time last weekend (after realizing that the other site upgraded relatively painlessly) and went a searchin’ for some tools to help configure my layout from anywhere – even work, in a pinch. ;)
I ran across a little goldmine over here. It’s a group of WordPress ‘Widgets,’ mini-plugins that work off a special widget plugin you can find here.
What I’m using from his list so far:
— King Framework – Required, its a library for the other stuff
— King Login – Used primarily to restrict my login/meta section to the main page
— King Text – It allows inclusion of HTTP/PHP files. Yay!
— King RSS – Much nicer-looking RSS feed, which allows different settings in different areas.
An example of what some of this allowed is available from my ‘Second Life’ catagory link. You’ll see two things a bit different:
— At the top of the sidebar, there’s an updating Lindex stat summary (mined on a regular basis from outside my webroot).
— Just under that, the RSS feed for the Linden Weblog has more entries listed.
I’m still playing with these, and some of the other widgets not listed. Should be fun…
EDIT – Hah. As I post this I (of course) run across some sort of bug, or combination of things that are creating a bug. More later, but the RSS feed is back to the main page only…
–TSK
Bad Behavior has blocked 408 access attempts in the last 7 days.
