September 2006 Archives

Greets:

Just a quick update on the laptop fund. So far the collection is more that 3/4ths of the way to the total with about 2 weeks left. I left it open ended so if we run over the total, I can get something a bit more up to date.

I also found out that one of the libraries I use normally will no longer be allowing non-students on their terminals so if I'm not able to pick up a laptop, we're going to have issues getting online on some days.

Please think about donating. Fundable sets a limit of $10 per donation which isn't much and you can use either Paypal or your credit cards.

Thanks again :)
-drmike

Just a quick note to mention that I will be in and out this week. It's the end of the month and I couldn't afford a bus pass. I'll try to work something out.

Thanks,
-drmike

It's the new TMX Elmo

Swipped from here

It's been discovered that bitacle.org has been stealing the entire content of some blogs, repackaging it, crediting it as their own, relicensing it under Creative Commons and offering it on their own site which is filled with adverts. This is a method of banning these idiots.

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I wonder if I could have gotten Angie to do this. :)

(I'm joking of course)



Discovered here and talked about here.

Did 20 emails this morning, went to lunch and to do some volenteer work. Got 58 more emails by the time I got back.

Be back later. :(

Finally Why can't more folks in the WordPress.com support forums understand that?

This one gets requested over on the Wordpress Support Forums ever so often. There's a wonderful service called Sitemeter that does free tracking of websites for you. The issue is though with WordPress.com, you can't have user inputted Javascripts as they're a security risk. (No matter what some folks say on the forums, they are.) So you were stuck with putting in the simple version which really just tracks the IP address of your visitor. Other things like browser types, OSes, etc couldn't be tracked.

Well, I wrote a WordPress widget that allowed a user to just put in their username from over at Site Meter (ie s11user) and have WordPress drop that into the Javascript itself. No javascript input by the user but they get to have the benefits of it. :)

Hope this helps,
-drmike

Download it from here. Drop it into your plugins subdirectory (If you're on WPMU, have your Site Admin drop it into your mu-plugins subdirectory.) Should show up on your Dashboard -> Presentation -> Sidebar widgets page.

edit: Friendly reminder about my laptop collection and my wishlist.

Update: Well I learned my lesson in releasing something to the WP community. Last time I do that. I've gone ahead and deleted this widget. I've tried to help folks who were having issues and followed up with their questions but folks wanted me to play guessing games and didn't want to give me any information so that I could help them. They just wasted my time and theirs. I also didn't care for those bad mouthing me elsewhere while not even asking for assistance or even reading the instructions.

Brand new pilot episode of the original animated show "Lil' Bush."
edit: I've had to remove the video as I can no longer find a copy of it on line. :(

The Word segment from the Colbert Report on Bush's approval ratings.

edit: I've gone ahead and removed the video as I can't find a copy of it online.