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Archives for 07/2004

To the right you'll see a listing of monthly archives. To view the archives for a particular month, click on that month's calendar number.

Below are the entries for 07/2004. If an entry has a light red background, that means it's had at least 10 comments added to it.

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28 entries  -  172 comments

1337 ExpressionEngine Plugin : July 31, 2004 : Note 2

Well, it started out as a joke on the pMachine support forums, but I went ahead and made an ExpressionEngine plugin that translates plain text into 1337 (Leet). It was a lot easier to get done than I thought it would be.  I’ll be making it…

Let There Be Avatars! : July 27, 2004 : Note 3

Gravatar is a new service that allows for the use of globally-recognized avatars.  You sign up by submitting your email address and a password.  Once you activate your account, you can upload an 80x80 image which will then be used as your avatar on…

New RSS Feeds : July 26, 2004 : Note 2

I’ve just finished creating two new RSS feeds to my site. RSS+Comments The first new feed is just like my original one, except it displays the last 10 entries with their associated comments.  Hopefully, if people see the comments through their newsfeed readers, then it will…

Some Random Items : July 26, 2004 : Note 0

After watching this NASA video of your typical 24 hour day for air traffic over the US, I am amazed at how fast the US grounded all flights on 9/11.  It’s amazing to watch.  It’s like a swarm of ants or bees, especially at certain…

Some Site Weirdness : July 23, 2004 : Note 10

I’m having some weird problems on my site, but I can’t figure out what the deal is.  I’m thinking it’s an ExpressionEngine thing. For some reason, some of my posts don’t show up.  You can click on the link, and nothing shows up.  In IE for PC, it’s gives you…

Recent External Links : July 22, 2004 : Note 0

I’ve just added a new little feature on the bottom of this page called Latest External Links.  It’s basically a list of all external links from the last five entries.  I thought it would be a nice little feature to have on the site. It was made possible by an…

PHP IDE for Mac : July 20, 2004 : Note 9

Today I spent a couple hours trying to fix the iTunes Watcher script.  When I moved from LunarPages to pMachine Hosting, the script stopped working.  At first, I couldn’t figure out what the deal was.  I thought there was a MySQL problem, so I dropped the tables…

Fat Kid Dancing : July 17, 2004 : Note 129

I’ve seen this animation in other places for a while now.  It’s both sad and hilarious.  The kid is WAY too happy.  I just thought some of my readers might want to see it too. It’s kind of mesmerizing…

Red Or Blue? : July 16, 2004 : Note 0

Slate has come up with a different “political-affiliation” quiz called Red Or Blue -  Which Are You? Here’s my result:

The Battle of the Ivys : July 16, 2004 : Note 2

I’m just doing my part to help a friend stay at the top of the Google chain amongst the Steves Ivy of the world. Steve Ivy Steve Ivy Steve Ivy Steve Ivy was the first guy to open my eyes to…

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