As you might have guessed from the previous post’s title, I have more than one piece of wisdom to impart. I have a question for you: “Are you backing up your data?” To cut the the chase, I recently had my 400GB Western Digital My Book external hard drive fail. I don’t know exactly what …
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Public Service Announcement 1: Laundry Room
On Thursday, we had an unfortunate malfunction. The water level switch in our washing machine failed to trip. The switch is the device in a washer that detects when enough water has entered the tub. As you can probably imagine, that switch failing means that the washer will continue to “fill” well past the point …
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Firebug is awesome
I’ve been fooling around with web development for quite some time, but I’ve never been all that serious about it. I wrote a photo gallery plugin for WordPress in PHP, but I didn’t really know what I was doing. This evening I’ve been working on the AJAX portion of my plugin and I finally decided …
Stompers!
Last week at work, the topic of toys from our childhood came up. One toy with many shared fond memories were the AA-powered 4×4 trucks called “Stompers.” Apparently they’re still made, at least according to these enthusiast sites: http://www.route21.com/stompers/ http://www.stomper4x4.com/ Here’s a short video of one in action. See if it brings back any memories: …
phpBB spam problem
For another project, I run a simple bulletin board using phpBB. Over the past several months it’s basically been unusable due to spam. I think the bots are able to defeat the standard captcha that phpBB provides. I tried a number of solutions (increased requirements for posting, hidden fields, reducing the reward for spamming, etc.), …