Twenty Sided

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jun 7, 2006

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Remember a couple of weeks ago when I found a site that seemed to link to me, but didn’t, but when I went there the blog had a picture of a kid that looked just like my son?

Today it happened again.

Today I found FuzzyGeek in my referer logs, but when I went there I could find no links headed this way. I did find a picture of “my son” though. Seems to be a different kid this time, but about the same age as the last one.

I understand that very improbable things do happen from time to time. I just wish that when they did, it was of the oh-look-a-huge-bag-of-money variety and not another wow-what-an-odd-coincidence variety.

On this upside, I did find this at that site: 101 bottles of Diet Coke and 531 Mentos. Just watch it. It’s cool.

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Yu Yu Fight Animation

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jun 7, 2006

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I’ve noticed that on a lot of forums people use big, elaborate animated .gif files for their profile image. I don’t make use of forums very often, so I’ve never really had use for such a thing, but I’ve always thought it would be fun to create one.

So, I found some good fight footage from Yu Yu Hakusho that would loop reasonably well and turned it into an animation. It would be cool if someday I saw someone using it. I’ll just post it here and see what happens. Here is the medium version:

96×96, 137k

There is a smaller and a much larger version of the same below the fold.

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Akismet

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Jun 7, 2006

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I’ve turned off Askimet (the anti-spam comment filter for WordPress) for the moment, as I noticed something amis and I want to make sure it hasn’t been just eating legitimate comments.

An hour ago it said it had caught 130 spam for me. Fine. Then just now it said it had caught 133, but there was only one comment listed in the akisment review queue. So what happened to the other two?

Looking back, I notice that the number of caught spams is going up WAY faster than the list of caught spams that it shows me. This suggests that some are going into the queue where I can review them, and some are going right into the bit bucket. That’s a little alarming.

So now that Akismet is off: Has anyone had problems getting their comments to show up?

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Najica: Mangled Manga

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Jun 6, 2006

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This is from the plot summary of the Najica Blitz Tactics Manga:

Plot Summary: With 17% of the earth’s surface submerged in water, Najica lives a double life, as both a skilled perfumer and an operative for the secret intellegence organization CRI.

Erm. We’re currently at about 75% of the Earth’s surface underwater. If that went down to 17%, well… I don’t think it could. All that water would have to be someplace. Anyway, if it did, nobody would be funding super spy organizations, building robots, or even buying perfume. The way this reads, they make it sound like 17% is a lot.

17%? What the heck were they trying to say, anyway?

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

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WordPress Plugin: Useless Stats

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Jun 6, 2006

Filed under: Programming 25 comments

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Useless Stats is a simple wordpress plugin that collects a bunch of general trivia about posting frequency and comment frequency. The current version is 1.21, which can be downloaded here. Just extract the file from the zip and place it into your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Then just go to the plugins admin page and enable the plugin. All done. Enjoy.

Once Useless Stats is installed, a small summary of comment and posting data is displayed on the dashboard:

Useless Stats WordPress plugin by Shamus Young

A more detailed collection of data can be found under the management tab in WordPress admin. This data provides charts that will show the number of comments per post by category and by day. It will show the breakdown of posting by day-of-week and by month, along with other data. An example of these charts can be seen here.

Finally, the plugin offers some HTML that you can cut & paste into your blog posts (or wherever else you like) so that you can show your data to others.

This plugin has not been tested with versions of WordPress before 2.0, and it is not known if it will work or not.

Suggestions or feedback welcome.

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

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Howl’s Moving Castle – Screencaps

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Jun 6, 2006

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The consensus on Howl’s Moving Castle seems to be that it is a very pretty disaster, particularly in light of what the movie could have been. So what we end up with are stunning visuals that tell an incomprehensible tale. Let’s have a look at some of those visuals:

The opening of the movie starts with a view of the clouds and then pans down to the city below. I took several screencaps from this process and made this composite image. Click for gigantic view.

More images below the fold…
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Healing Coma

By Shamus Posted Monday Jun 5, 2006

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On Sunday I decided to skip coffee. I drink a lot, so the effects of doing this were quite strong.

I mentioned my broken ribs last week. Sadly, there is very little doctors can do for broken ribs aside from dispensing narcotic painkillers like they were halloween candy. I’m in the middle of a large coding project at work, so being in a stupor isn’t really an option. I have to suck it up and make do with Tylenol and pitiful, little-girl whining noises. After about a week, the pain hadn’t subsided at all.

What was great about Sunday is that I didn’t go through the typical coffee withdrawl symptoms. I didn’t get a big headache or anything, I just slept. I would guess that in the stretch from Saturday night to Monday morning, I was probably awake for about 12 out of 36 hours. That’s a lot of sleep. Every few hours I would wake up, drink some water, check on the site here, and go back to bed.

The results were wonderful. The sleeping binge let me hold still and do some real healing. I’m suddenly a little more mobile and in a lot less pain. The best part is, it happened without the aid of medicine. All I had to do was not drink coffee. Nice.

Thanks again for the well-wishes everyone sent in. Looks like I’m on the mend.

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

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