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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!

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By Dave, August 2, 2005 11:46 am

Study Links Tobacco Smoke With Belly Fat – Yahoo! News

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This is interesting. And scary. And goes to show that everything will kill you. And does. And that it’s ALL connected.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:37 pm

How Butterflies Fly Thousands Of Miles Without Getting Lost Revealed By Researchers

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Okay, that’s how. Now why do they make the trip?

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:35 pm

Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming

Stands to reason. The warmer it is the more moisture in the air. The moister the air the less resistance lost to friction.

But Albert E ain’t worried bout no global warming…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:32 pm

James Randi Educational Foundation — An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

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Now available online and free! I suspect this will boost his dead tree sales quite a bit. Gonna have to do some online reading now…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 9:30 pm

Hoopty Rides: MegaGiant Wood Ipod Eliminates Mugging Threat!

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this is cool! Gonna have to get that issue of Make that describes the construction of this project when it hits the street…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 8:10 pm

Climate Is Regulated By Water

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Well yes it is. And a lot of other things. Not saying that a WHOLE lot is dependent on water but the blatant statement could be made about a lot of other things too.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 7:42 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – ‘Pig disease’ may be spreading between humans
Vaccines to combat a deadly pig-borne disease were flown to south-western China on Sunday, where the spread of the rare illness has already killed 36 people and infected 198. The unusually high numbers of people infected by the swine disease has led scientists to speculate that it may be being spread from human-to-human – or that another disease entirely is to blame.

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I was wondering how long it would take as virulent as it seems to be at least from what scanty reports that I have seen. The initial 19 (?) had no contact with each other and now there are this many more.

Something wicked this way comes…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 7:18 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Amphetamines relieve Parkinson’s-like symptoms

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Interesting. Especially the hypothetical mechanism they suspect of operating here.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 5:03 pm

Gizmodo IMterview: Jonathon Keats :
Gizmodo

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Long time coming…

Tis strange to say the least and I understand the concept he is shooting for on the other claw. 😉

Not so sure about the “God” project or the Berkeley petition.

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 2:26 pm

Techdirt:Where The Hell Am I On This Newspaper Website?

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Oh yea! Big pet peeve of mine.

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out what country a paper is in much less trying it figure out what state or city it was! And it pisses me off every time!

The simple addition of “city, state and country” in the copyright statement would be a BIG improvement…

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By Dave, August 1, 2005 1:26 pm

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
DRM on Mactel Machines?

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Read the article. Get pissed off. Or even more pissed off at Apple and DRM, if that’s possible.

I have posted about being a bit upset with Apple about this before. I have not updated to Tiger because of the growing inclusion of DRM into every aspect of the os that they possibly could.

Come on people! It’s hard enough now to open a document if the extension is not what the OS thinks that program should be allowed to handle.

What will it be like under “trusted computing”?

Have a bit change in a document due to “cosmic rays” or bit rot on the cd or dvd or even hard drive that it’s stored on, and depending on what bit it is, you AIN”T gonna get to open it at all, cause “something’s” not right. STUPID! The caps ain’t big enough!

Good bye Apple. Been nice working on your platform lo these many years. But there is always a breaking point and you just crossed mine. Neither you nor any of your platforms developers will get another penny of my vote!

I’ll be reloading my iBook(s) with linux soon. And you can bet my next computer(s) won’t have that cute little apple on the lid.

It’ll be a penguin…