fighting the lack of good ideas
I finished debugging the regex for a new wordpress plugin I’m now using on my blog – it will take a “tagged” block of text (in this case inside double curly braces), and link to a target website (duckduckgo.com, amazon, etc) based on the ‘type’ of content (another tag inside the curly braces).
A recent Final Jeopardy! question said there are two pairs of countries which differ in spelling by only two letters: Australia/Austria and one other. The answer they were looking for was Niger/Nigeria. Well, I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a third pair: Mali/Malawi. It’s not often you see errors on Jeopardy!…
My wife started blogging recently – and while there’s only one post up so far, I’m sure it will grow 🙂 Welcome to the blogosphere, honey =D
Term Define is a pretty simple plugin – something really just to get my feet wet in the area. For any ALL-CAPS terms/words in a post, when the page is rendered, a link to dictionary.com is inserted. So a word like ‘HULA’ would get transformed into HULA. (Note: I’m not using this particular plugin on…
I’ve started writing [simple] plugins for WordPress – the blogging tool I use to manage antipaucity.com. As I write more, if I think they’re worth sharing, I’ll write about them here. A full list will also be available at http://antipaucity.com/plugins.
I came across this news story today regarding Rentech that is planning to produce “synthetic” fuels, ear-marking more than half their planned production for airline use (16k barrels of 30k barrels in their first facility). Of course, this is only a tiny amount compared to the amount of petroleum consumed per day worldwide, but as…
As I mentioned a few days ago, I was a juror on a trial. That trial was the State of North Carolina vs Shannon Crawley in the unlawful death of Denita Smith on 04-Jan-2007. Miss Smith’s fiancee, Jermier Stroud, was implicated by the defendant. Mr Stroud is a police officer in Greensboro. Under oath, and…