March 2006 Archives

George "Geordie" Hormel, heir to the Austin-based Hormel Foods Corp., died Sunday. He was 77. Read about it here.

Urban Dead - A Free Massively Multi-Player Web-Based Zombie Apocalypse.

Urban Dead is a browser-based, grid-mapped, free-to-play multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre.

From here:

"It's senior year now, so the stakes are raised. Dating changes everything for Kim and Ron. As if first love isn't challenging enough, they have mean queen Bonnie Rockwaller trying to sabotage them at every opportunity. She just can't stand to see Kim happy, especially since her boyfriend, Brick, has graduated and gone off to college.

On missions, we'll introduce colorful new villains and bring back some favorite allies. Now that Wade has finally gotten out of his room, he'll be dropping in personally to present Kim and Ron with new inventions and techno gear.

In one episode, when the crime gets personal, Monique suits up and jumps into action alongside Kim. Once she gets a taste of real action, Monique becomes a valuable asset to Team Possible with her fashion skills applied for undercover disguises.

At school, Kim's senior year social scene will take a turn for the cursed when her rambunctious genius brothers skip a few grades into Middleton High. Kim will meet a mysterious relative, whose appearance will force Kim to make a dramatic choice. We'll also see more of Ron's home life this season, as his only child status comes to an abrupt end."

My local IHoP didn't do the Free Pancakes.

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I'm catching up on my deviantArt mailbox. Started this morning with over 500 pieces in my inbox. Down to just about 250. I'm just saving stuff right now. Deal with posting about it later. I did see this though by Zwammy: deviantART: I got your back with Trent and Daria by ~zwammy.

Dinogaby gives us her 200th deviation. She's got some cool artwork.

I just discovered The First Annual Fannie Awards covering Kim Possible works. I wonder if they got the idea from the Daria fan community.

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From here

Back in the ice age, Northern European cavemen got all the chicks.

Thanks to a food shortage and a man shortage about 10,000 years ago, men were in such demand they had their pick of mates.

With so much competition among women to find a mate, nature and evolution kicked in to give some cave women a distinctive look to attract the opposite sex: blond hair and blue eyes.

So says a new study published in the British science journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

Found here.

== Alpha v0.03.03 Released ==

'''March 2, 2006′'' (Lets see what we're cooking)

{Friendly Reminder}
* If you submit a bug report, please include the page you are having an issue with and what you did to get there. It would help.

{Mailing Lists}
* I've gone ahead and started a pair of mailing lists through SourceForge. Do note that you do not have to be a member of SourceForge to sign up for them.

More Info: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=146046

phpsupermarket-announcements: For release announcements
phpsupermarket-general: Pretty much anything else.

{Coding}
* Created a ban IP mechanism. Need to do an interface though.
* Added an optional security image for the signup script. Make sure you read the upgrade.txt file on how to update your db.php file to turn this on.
* Added the forums. They sort of work...
* Made an adjustment in the player's level so that I can create admins later on.
* Adding sorting to the communities list.
* Added company name and email address to the email admin gets when a new player signs up.
* Store Managers have been added to the game. You can hire them, train them if needed (This takes 8 weeks to complete) and assign them to your stores. You can even fire them if you want. They do have a fairly decent effect on your store sales.
* You now get billed 5% of your square footage for electric fees per week.

(Bugs)
* Corrected the link in the footer to the home page of the project. (Bug 1439620)
* Removed '1′, '0′, 'l', 'o', and 'i' from the security image script to avoid confusion.
* Reformatted display numbers to show commas for the thousands place. (Bug 1434685)
* Dealt with the issue of the menu column displaying twice during errors during player signup. I think I got them all. (Bug 1434308)
* Fixed the store counts within communities within the *.sql install file. (Bug 1434684)
* Upgrade script will correct store counts for already installed games (Bug 1440495)
* Cashiers are now being paid. (Oops) Fixed in buildthatsucker.php as well as the upgrade script. Can't believe I missed that... (Bug 1440969)
* The forum was not doing line breaks correctly. I'm hoping that this is fixed. (Bug 1440997)
* Fixed the issue with company name not being shown in the webpage after a new company has been created as well as within the email sent to the game admin. Fixed AGAIN! (Bug 1441007)
* Adjusted the size of the email address within the players table. I guess 25 characters isn't enough. Sorry about that. (Bug 1441015)
* Fixed the issue in the viewcommunities page where it was presenting you a link to build a store when there wasn't one available. Fixed this as well in the buildstore.php page. (Bug 1440517)
* For some reason, when you incorrectly created a store that was too large or didn't have enough money, the script would erase the data that it was holding on the store so you always wound up in sector 1. Fixed I think. (Bug 1440734) Still don't know where that one came from as it was something I made sure that worked before the release.
* Fixed a minor bug in the displaycompanies.php file that would list the stores in the incorrect order.

{SQL}
* Upgraded the SQL install file to include the badips, topics, and posts tables.
* Added the first name and last name tables to the file.
* Added the store managers table to the file.

{Upgrading}
* Started a method of upgrading. It might even work.

Get it from here and play it online here.