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Had no idea they were still making these things. Wonderful for dry areas. You get cooling even here in the south east until we hit those 100% humidity days when every surface is covered with water then they don’t do so well…
Another Newspaper Falls into Creationist Trap | Bayosphere
Dan makes a very good point in this piece. And one I had not considered.
Just got my head full of coding and find it hard to move from writing words to working with code so…
Got the paypal if else part more nearly done. Shows up when and where it should and not otherwise. Now got to figure out the rest of the return from paypal to verify sale and flip the For Sale switch from 1 to 0 or checked to unchecked. I’m sure it’s not a biggie but my head ain’t thinking this way today. May have to shelve the project till I get back into the grove…
Armadillo Aerospace News Archive
Armadillo Aerospace News Archive
Servo regulator, Throatless engines, Hold down test
Aug 4, 2005 notes
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Looks like they are making progress. The engine test mpg down toward the end is awsome!
Slashdot | Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants
An anonymous reader writes “Tommy Thompson, the former Bush Health Secretary after implanting a chip into himself, is going to submit a proposal within the next 50 days to promote it for everyone in the USA. VeriChip spokesperson John Procter said ‘virtually everyone could benefit from having a chip inserted.’ Enjoy your assimilation in the land of the free, citizen.”
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They can implant me – Right after they pry my gun out of my dead cold hands!
Slashdot | Can a Customer Loyalty Database Change a Society?
The following is taken from the comments and illustrates a LONG standing problem with family owned business
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The village where I live is about 3 miles from the nearest Tesco and, one by one, the small family-run shops are closing. But they themselves are partly to blame – apart from Saturday mornings, they’re closed when I’m at home. I would buy my meat fresh the butchers, fruit and veg from the greengrocer, and fresh bread from the bakers, but they don’t give me that choice. If they stayed open late, just by a couple of hours, one day a week they’d get my business. At the moment the only people able to shop there are pensioners, the unemployed, housewives and shift workers.
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I see this constantly. The family business that is open to the public (brick front vs web store) only wants to be open during “business hours” or 9 to 5 then everyone wants to be off and go out and do things. Big problem.
I was thinking of opening a book store a few years ago and one of the things I had decided to do was change the open hours to reflect the people I was trying to sell to. Was planning on being open from 3 pm to 11 pm 4 days a week. But health and inertia intervened and now we are surrounded by books 24/7 and selling on the web. Much lower overhead and no set hours. But no walk-in traffic. To offset the lower overhead on rent and utilities is the shear amount of work that it takes to get the book ready (on line) for someone to buy.
Whereas in a brickfront used book store you take the boxes of used books and take the books out, search and see what the book is worth, pencil in the price, enter it into inventory, assign a shelf location and put them in on the shelf.
In a online used bookstore you take the books out of the boxes and search to see the current price range on the particular book, decide how much the book is worth, enter the book and it’s condition into the database, scan the front and back of the book, convert the scans to the proper size, enter the picture number in the database, assign a shelf location for the book, and put them on the shelf.
After putting it down on the screen it looks like the bigest difference is the addition of the scan and the detailed description of each book.
I’m already working to automate a lot of the steps required to scan, resize, make thumbnail, rename, upload to correct places, so maybe it will be less labor intensive and human error prone.
Ah well. Ramble over. Time to get back to the php/wordpress mines…
The Huffington Post | The Blog | is-your-lawn-safe
Is Your Lawn Safe?
The American shruburbs. A safe place to raise your kids, right? Maybe, but here’s another “dark side of the American dream” story, with an easy solution:
More than 70 million pounds of pesticides are sprayed onto America’s 30 million acres of lawns each year by companies like ChemLawn, who’ve made the perfect lawn an icon more imporant than the white picket fence.
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Been saying this for years… But most folks don’t think. I mean that’s what the adds tell us to do right? –
Got weeds? Spray.
Got bugs? Spray.
Don’t think about (man behind the curtain) the environmental effects somewhere off down the road. Or in your offspring.
As long as the critters/weeds are gone NOW that’s all all you should care about.
Bullshit! Weeds and most bugs are good for something somewhere. Natural controls are available in most cases and less toxic means exist where natural isn’t available. Besides we need all the green we can get to counteract deforestation erosion and global warming.
Act locally, think globally…
BOFH 2005: All you can eat | The Register
The 2005 BOFH index. Cool!
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!
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!
“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…
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?
Another day of Hell freezing at the Apple Store
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Gotta love those tit mice!
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. “
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…
My Brighton and Hove | Daddy Longlegs | Local History
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Seriously steampunk!
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.
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?
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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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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