I couldn’t sleep, last night, and I was too tired to do anything with Applegate Farms*, so I added a couple of features to this site.
I now have a guestbook installed; and yes, I’m well aware it’s a really lousy hack to get it into the template. I need to - eventually - design my own template for it. That’s project number 721 on my TODO list.
The Star Wars Nerds are lining up, again, for the premiere of “Revenge of the Sith,” at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, in a couple of months.
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It took some code slogging, it took some desk rearranging, it even took some playing with stuffed animals, but my archive section is (finally) online! Admittedly, it’s nothing fancy, but it gets you to where you need to be.
Coding my blog backend by hand has been an interesting experience, and I’m learning more about PHP than I would really like to, sometimes. (If you could have seen the SQL statements I had to create, today… oy!)
How interesting, according to a new filesystem hack with python, libgmail, and FUSE, one can use Gmail as a filesystem. Basically, 2gb extra filesystem? odd.
Recently, I was digging around in my closet and found my old Veo Stingray webcam. After much haggling with Windows XP, USB drivers, and various webcam softwares, I finally got the blasted thing working.
From now on, my most recent webcam thumbnail will be displayed in the “currents” section of the right-hand sidebar, along with a link to the cam page, proper. The cam page will display the most current image on appropriate refresh (currently, 30 seconds. Though I may up it, later). If you click the image on the main cam page, you will be able to view a live stream (well, approximately 1.5 frames per second, at any rate). This eats up bandwith for me, and I may turn this option off, as I see fit.
As virtually everyone (USA-side) is aware of, the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) selling the yellow “Live Strong” wristbands. What many may not be aware of, is the fact that many unscrupulous* companies have come to the forefront, selling knock-off bracelets in colors other than yellow (the only official color is yellow). Also, one or two companies have begun selling similar-colored yellow bracelets with the Live Strong logo on them.
What many people may not realize is that the LAF sells the bracelets only in bulks of 10, 100, or 1200 from their website. Many people have started buying bulks of 1,200 and reselling the bracelets on eBay. It’s rare to find a single bracelet for under $3.00 (plus shipping), and most are more than that. It’s even rarer to find an eBay seller promising to donate a portion of their proceeds back to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
So I went and researched a lot about Google Adsense, and figured I’d go ahead and include it.
“HEY! I thought you HATED banner ads and advertisements!!”
