Archive for February 2005
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Urban Dictionary
“Define your world” at Urban Dictionary. They even have images to illustrate some of the definitions. I like the one for stfu. (...)
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CSS Playground
The CSS Playground has some pretty amazing stuff, all done with CSS. (...)
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It’s Working
Comment left by a spammer today… I don’t think your site is working. (...)
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Lack of Personal Updates
You may have noticed a lack of personal updates here at the MDV. Seriously, there really hasn’t been much exciting going on, but here’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of days. For the past two weeks I’ve been busy working on my web sites, upgrading WordPress installations, writing plugins, and helping out in general with WP. (...)
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Review: AVP - Alien Vs. Predator
I’ve watched Predator and the Alien movies, so when I had heard about AVP I knew I’d watch it, but wasn’t all that excited. When I watched AVP earlier this week I was very satisfied with the film. Whoever came up with the story did a wonderful job of bringing the two different creatures together for an exciting plot that is believable at the same time. (...)
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Archive Inspiration
The archives at the WP development blog look a lot like MDV Archive, or more specifically, the old MtDewVirus Archives system, which allowed linking to the year archive. I wonder if my archives were inspiration or if they actually use my code. (...)
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WordPress Fights Spam
As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well. One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have been approved also. (...)
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Fight the Spam
Last night I deactivated the WP Hashcash plugin here and at 2 Hole Cards to see how it goes. As of right now, the only spam plugin I have activated is my moderate trackback plugin. We’ll see how the spam prevention measures that are built into WordPress do. (...)
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WP 1.5 Times 2
Just upgraded 2 Hole Cards to the latest and greatest blogging software the web has to offer. I’m diggin’ WP 1.5 more and more each time I play around with. And finding out more about how it works too! (...)
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I’m a White Guy
I accidentally bought a loaf of wheat bread last week. It only took a few days to reinforce the fact that I’m a white bread guy. (...)
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Answers.com
Answers.com boasts “The best definitions and explanations for over 1 million topics.” It’s different from Google and I know I’ll get some use out of it. (...)
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Pink Bunny Poker Auction
As if Save Toby wasn’t bad enough, now we have the Famous Pink Bunny Poker Auction on eBay. Starting bid is $150,000. (...)
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I Code
Today was the first day in a long time that I didn’t want to leave work at 4:30. I’ve been coding a program for the past week and because of the short work day I didn’t get time to work on it until almost 4:00. I was just getting into the zone and found out where my bug was when a co-worker mentioned it was time to go home. Time flies when you’re doing what you like. (...)
Trackback and Pingback Moderation Updates
I’ve updated the plugins for moderating pingbacks and trackbacks. They now work like I should have first created them. The PB or TB is set to moderate before being committed to the database. This eliminates my query to the database and it also allows WordPress to send you the correct email message. The latest version for each is 1.2. (...)
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Congrats Heather!
My little sister Heather just got hired for a permanent substitute teaching job for the rest of the school year. She had graduated in December and there aren’t too many openings for teachers in the middle of the school year, so I’m really happy for her. Way to go Baba! Haha…”Baba” was my nickname for her when we were young. She just love when I call her that now. (...)
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Short Monday
Last Monday SVSU didn’t open until noon because of an ice storm. Tomorrow, it’s because of snow. Next Monday might be locusts. Just found this on the SVSU site. (...)
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Still Coming Down
The snow is still coming down at a rate of an inch/hour. I’d say we’ve gotten about 10 inches in the last 12 hours. Maybe SVSU will close down tomorrow and I won’t have to work. Saginaw Public schools have already been canceled. (...)
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Typical Michigan Weather
Yesterday the sun was out and there was green grass everywhere. So maybe it was a greenish-brown, but at least you could see grass in everyone’s yard. Our snow had been gone for about a week. This morning when I woke up there was just a little bit of white powder on the ground; a little harmless snow. (...)
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Updated WordPress Plugins
I’ve updated all of my WordPress plugins for WP 1.5 compatibility. Most of them would have functioned without a problem, so I didn’t make many changes. Enjoy! (...)
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MDV Archive
Want a better archiving system for WordPress? You may remember the old MtDewVirus archives system, but this is much better. The new theme system makes it possible. You can see it in action on the archives here at MtDewVirus and get the files at the MDV Archive page. (...)
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Forward
I’m pretty happy with the way the design turned out. I call it Forward because of it’s relation to my life right now. We can usually tell what is over our heads and what is under our feet, but we don’t always know what’s right in front of us. For instance, just look at the header and footer images. (...)
All New
As you may have noticed, I’m in the process of rolling out the new MtDewVirus design. Please excuse the small piles of dust here and there as I clean a few things up. Also note that I haven’t even started to work on the Photos section of the site. Much more to come in the next 24 hours! (...)
Official WordPress 1.5 Announcment
Straight from Matt comes the official announcement of WordPress 1.5. Very well written, but you really have to see the new version in action to believe all of the new features. (...)
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Counting WordPress
Almost 10,000 downloads for WordPress 1.5 and it hasn’t even been announced yet! It was at 9,900 at the time of this post. (...)
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Going for 7
Lance Armstrong will ride in the Tour de France this year. (...)
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Review: WordPress 1.5
First of all I’d like to say congratulations to Matt and the rest of the Wordpress development team on a fine job with WP 1.5. Earlier tonight I happened to be checking my email when a few changes came in to the CVS mailing list. The latest change had the log message of “*cough*” and I was curious. (...)
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What Happened To MtDewVirus?
As you may have noticed, the look has changed. Matt asked if I’d test out the first build of WordPress 1.5 and I couldn’t say no. I haven’t had the chance to give everything a test run, but I’ve noticed some great changes already. (...)
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Save Toby
Now here’s a way to make some easy money from a few suckers. Threaten to kill a cute little bunny named Toby. The guy running this site is going to kill Toby on June 30th, 2005 if he doesn’t get $50,000 in donations and merchandise purchases. Amazingly, he’s already took in over $14,000! After all, he’s only asking for $1 from each person. (...)
Quote Coach K
Two are better than one if two act as one. Coach K (...)
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Google Speak
Google speaks your language, whatever that may be. Some very cool tools for translating text or an entire web page. (...)
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Paid Off
During lunch I wrote out a $900 check to pay off the rest of my TV. I’m trying to get as many bills out the way as I can before I purchase my new vehicle in the next month or so. It always feels good to pay something off. (...)
Expectations
I’ve been trying to think of the future of MtDewVirus.com. What do I want from it? Why do I have the site? A redesign has been in the plans and is getting closer to being started. I promise. Help me out though… What have you come to expect from MtDewVirus? Why do you visit? Thanks for your time. (...)
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Dew Traffic
While looking through the logs here at MtDewVirus, I’ve found that my traffic has dropped off considerably. I guess it shouldn’t be suprising since I haven’t been reading many other blogs, haven’t been commenting, and I don’t link to many other blogs. My referrer logs are jammed with bogus sites and sites related to poker. (...)
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3 Whole Years
I forgot to post this last week. Last Friday marked the 3rd year I’ve been working full-time at SVSU. Over 5 years total if you count the time I spent as a student employee. Way too long… (...)
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Text Editor
What text editor do you use for web design and programming? I’m looking for a good one. A good free one that is. (...)
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CafePress
Does anyone have a CafePress shop? I’ve been thinking about setting one up for one of my sites. I just wanted to know if it’s worth the time and effort. (...)
F In Sex
Put the F in sex. (...)
Good Bye Comments
I just accidentally deleted ALL of the comments that have ever been on this site. Whoops! My most recent backup is from January 9th…I’m working on that right now. (...)
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Google Maps
Google is unreal. Check out Google Maps when you get the chance. (...)
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Super Bowl Weekend
My Super Bowl weekend couldn’t have started out any worse. On the ride up to Rogers City I hit a porcupine and it cracked up my front bumper. I’m going to try to get it fixed without replacing it. I talked to one of the body shops back home and they said they would be able to take off the bumper, grind it down, and glue it. Roughly $300-$400 to have that done. (...)
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Just What I Need
I made it to Rogers City safe and sound, but my car didn’t. Less than two fucking months until I turn in my lease, so what happens? I run over the biggest fucking porcupine ever and it damn near tears off the front of my car. I’ll take some pictures tomorrow during the day. I’m not a happy camper! (...)
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Mailing List Opt Out
Tired of receiving credit card offers in the mail? Me too. I found a way to opt out of these offers. Either call 1-888-5OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688) or visit optoutprescreen.com. The web site doesn’t look legit, but it is. I called the number and they even gave that URL in the phone message. How do I know the phone number is legit? I looked it up on some of the credit company web sites. (...)
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Change Of Scenery
MtDewVirus realy needs a change of scenery…I just haven’t wanted to spend the time on a new design though. WordPress 1.5 has entered the gamma stage, so it shouldn’t be long before the final release. Maybe that’s when I’ll work on some changes around here since there are some new features that I’ve planned to take advantage of for quite some time. (...)
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Holy Gmail
I logged into one of my Gmail accounts today and saw that I had 50 invites to give out! HOLY SHIT! Anyone need one? (...)
God’s Children
If we are all God’s children then what makes Jesus so special? (...)
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Tennis Is Depressing
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall. Maybe this is why I don’t play. (...)
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Super Bowl Squares
Just in case you wanted to know which Super Bowl squares are the “best” to have, here’s a list of how frequently scores have appeared in recent years. (...)
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Give Quick Answers
Let’s find out just how clever you really are. Answer quickly and then move on to the next question. Do not check out the answers until you’ve read all of the questions. You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? If you overtake the last person, then you are…? Do this math in your head… Take 1000 and add 40 to it. (...)
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Blog This, Blog That
There are blogs for everything now. Recently I saw that ESPN started a Super Bowl blog. (...)
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Trackback Spammers Are Back
The trackback spammers are back in full force. When I checked my email this morning I had over 180 and it’s continuing through the morning at a rate of several per minute. Talk about a pain in the ass! Don’t they realize that their info isn’t every getting onto the site. It’s getting flagged and caught in the moderation queue. Keep it up jackasses! (...)