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By Dave, August 3, 2005 7:44 pm

BOFH 2005: All you can eat | The Register

The 2005 BOFH index. Cool!

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 7:42 pm

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
The Mighty Mouse has only been out for a day and already it has gotten drunk and made a ‘questionable’ life choice, but it is an inanimate object and it can do with its scrollball what it wishes:

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This is just too funny!

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 3:30 pm

Wireless Optical Scrollball Mouse, 171267 at Cyberguys.com

Wireless Optical Scrollball Mouse. I like this, and at less than $40 tis not a bad deal. No mention of mac drivers that I saw though.

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I tink I taw a tit mouse!
I did!
I did!
I did tee a tit mouse!

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 3:26 pm

“Darknets” cast to cloak identities of computer file swappers

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I wonder just how many of them are out there now. Bet “The Shadow” doesn’t know the answer to that…

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 3:23 pm

Evolutionary Accident Probably Caused The Worst Snowball Earth Episode, Study Shows

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Gives new meaning to “a snowballs chance in hell”, eh?

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 3:21 pm

★ The Joy of Tech! ★

Another day of Hell freezing at the Apple Store

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Gotta love those tit mice!

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 2:17 pm

Fossil Fuels May Decrease Earth’s Natural Capacity to Store Carbon

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And for more good news on the enviromental front. 🙁
It looks like its gonna get hotter quicker than previously calculated due to the increase in carbon dioxide emission it now seems that the earth isn’t absorbing it as well as it used do.

From the article-

“Their major finding was an inverse relationship between the rate at which carbon dioxide is emitted from the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, and the capacity of land and ocean to absorb that carbon dioxide: the faster the emissions, the less effective were the carbon sinks. “

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 11:36 am

Been poking at wordpress for the last few days and it’s starting to poke back a bit.

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to have a thumbnail on one page and the full sized picture on another without having to add a bunch of excess code. The site(s) that I need this for are for collecting and/or selling books and I want to display the front and back covers of each. The location on each page will be the same.

The problem was having to do a lot of copy and paste on each page.

I spent days looking at image handling programs or plugins or anything with image in the name by the end of it as there doesn’t seem to be anything quite for that purpose.

So… I got to looking at the custom fields that WordPress has already built in. I looked around and found a plugin by the name of Get Custom Plugin Values that allows a whole lot of customizing using a few simple calls. This sucker rocks!!

It took me about 15 minutes to get it working and start converting the site over to use the new format. The way I have it set up allows me to add one custom field with the name of the file stripped of the ending (a=front cover b=back cover) and the .jpg. The code then adds the img= and all the prefix info. I could do most of the prefix with wordpress calls and I plan to at some point but for now this gets me past a bottleneck…

Then I got to thinking about it some more. With the addition of another custom field – price – and some added pre and post stuff I think this can turn any wordpress post into a “for sale” page. Planing on using paypal for the shopping cart and payment gateway, so that code is already done just got to plug it into place.

The only thing left is to see if it will work. With the proper code on the paypal return page I think I can clear the price field with so the item shows up sold. 😉 Inventory control at point of sale… Simple. I think.

Add a few category pages with different search criteria and it looks like wordpress can be a full e-commerce platform that also allows blogging…

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By Dave, August 3, 2005 7:51 am

My Brighton and Hove | Daddy Longlegs | Local History

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Seriously steampunk!