February 2006 Archives

Daria slapped her arm and said, "Die, you unclean spawn of Barch." She lifted her hand to see the mangled remains of a mosquito.

Quinn looked over. "Ewwwww!!!! Daria, how could you?"

"Don't worry. We can fix him." Daria pulled out a device and slowly passed it over the dead blob on her arm. After a few moments, Daria paused and looked at the device. "Oh, my mistake. That's a salt shaker." She tossed it over her shoulder, pulled out a second device and began passing that over the blob. This device gave off a siren type noise.

FREE PANCAKES! NO STRINGS ATTACHED!

On February 28, 2006 from 7 AM to 2 PM IHOPs across the country will celebrate National Pancake Day (also known as Shrove Tuesday) by offering our guests a free short stack of pancakes*. This is going to be our biggest one day celebration in our history.

National Pancake Day has a rich history that stretches back centuries and has always been a time of celebration. National Pancake Day always falls on Fat Tuesday and this year it will be a celebration at IHOP.

So gather your friends, family and neighbors and come to your local IHOP and enjoy a short stack of pancakes on us. All we ask is that you consider making a donation to a great charity like First Book or other local, worthy cause. Where else would you celebrate National Pancake Day than IHOP? See you there.

Read about it here, here and here.

Added a new webcomic to the list today - On the Rocks. It's only been around for about a year so it's a quick read. The author did a guest webcomic for PvP

Working version.

Lots of bugs fixes as well. I'm uploading this especially since I had to make a change to the database structure and didn't want to get too many installs out there. They would have had to reinstall the database for the newer version to work.

Biggest changes are the ability to change one's password, email notification to the admin upon a new player joining, other players can no longer see your private information, lots of minor bug fixes, and more security.

Feb 23, 2006 (Clean up the mess mix)

{Coding}

* Add the Daily Tomato and created a sub theme around it.
* Day script finished
* Game Admin now gets an email when a new company is created.
* Game Admin now gets an email when the daily script is run.
* Store Class now puts weight on the store's popularity.
* Created db.php.example so upgraders wouldn't copy over their previous version of db.php
* Moved the most commonly used functions into the common.php file. (I'm amazed. It actually worked.)
* Improved security throughout the code.
* You can no longer see the non-public information about your competitors. (I'm a sneaky bastard) I'll add spying later.
* Reworked the logout routine to destroy thte information within the php session as well as unset the session.
* Worked on the Add Features routine.
* The Day script now gives off output. You need to adjust your cron to make this go to the /dev/null. (It's about 200k in size on my testbed)
* Added a style sheet to the template.
* Added the View your profile page. (Not much there though.)
* Added the ability to edit your password. (Even I wanted that. :)
* Added a company description field and a method to edit it.

{Bugs}

* Fixed the missing company name on the company creation page.
* Fixed incorrect player count within the sql file.
* Fixed missing template on buildthatsucker.php if player ran out of space.
* Corrected typos galore.
* Sat here and played the game for a couple of hours. Fixed a bunch of stuff that I came across.
* Fixed some errors in the *.sql file. Sorry folks, but you're going to have to reinstall the db on this one.

Play it here:

Thanks,
-drmike

Take it here.

What Type of Villain are You?
mutedfaith.com.

Taken from here and found on MySpace.

I've gone ahead and moved the phpSuperMarketTycoon wiki off of Sourceforge and over to one of my servers. SF kept timing out all the time and it's a pain. Hopefully things will move quicker on it now. I've been working on a few articles for it as well.

From here: WSOCTV.com

So what are you going to wear today? That is a question that one man has left to his Internet audience.

Every day on Kevin McCormick's Web site, DressKevin.com, he asks what he should wear the next day.

Viewers pick from photos he's taken of practically every item in his closet -- even down to his socks.

McCormick said his audience is almost all female -- either 13-year-olds who want to dress their boyfriends or 45-year-olds who want to dress their sons.