I have just released version 0.8.0 of “It’s All Text!“, the Firefox extension that answers the age old question, “What happens when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingoes?”1
I was walking through Squirrel Hill today with Robin and my Dad. There was a house with some junk on their porch and a sign saying, “For sale. $1 each.” I looked through the stuff and found an Epson HX-20!
Oh. My. Gawd!
When I was in High School a guy named Randy had a TRS80 Model 100 portable computer (made in 1983). It was the coolest thing. I got him to loan it to me so I could write a small text adventure (only like 6 rooms, but a huge deal at the time).
I found this excellent video of Douglas Crockford (discoverer of JSON) talking about the security problems inherent in Mashups and of JavaScript as a whole.
He proposes a solution involving what he calls vats; a self contained JavaScript interpreter with limited communication to the page. The JavaScript in the page would be the only trusted code running and the code in the various vats would not be trusted.
Well, I just got a nasty shock!
I got in at the tail end of a thread about the new update notification feature in WordPress 2.3.
One of the comments I read kept ricocheting around in my head. Matt Mullenweg said something about the dashboard RSS feeds transmitting my blog URL. I thought, initially, that he meant the IP address was revealed. But the more I thought about it, the weirder it seemed.
I have redesigned my whole site. While a lot changes are visual, there are even more changes in the way the unseen back-end parts have changed.
Previously, I had a modified copy of the default WP 2.x theme (which is based on Kubric theme). It was reasonable markup, but I spent a lot of time modifying the classes and adding containers to hang my CSS off of. In addition, tracking the changes to the default theme was a pain.
My little sister, Claire came to visit. I wasn’t able to make as much time as I like because of other events, but I was able to arrange for her to stay over Thursday and Friday night. She was in town to help a friend do pottery and just hang out at the Pennsic War, north of Pittsburgh, and to catch a ride to Alabama.
We went to the Strip on Saturday (I recommend it!) and had a good time. She found a cool pottery place there (she does pottery, in a serious way) and we took her out for breakfast and lunch there. I was a bit tired from the week as a whole, but I stayed relatively engaged.
When I was little, my dad and mom would take me to Germany to see my Dad’s mother. I called her “Oma” (which is German for grandma or granny). She lived in an apartment in Hannover. The apartment was filled with old people stuff. And old people, too. My Uroma and Uropa (great grandma and grandpa) both lived with her. I remember being chased by my Oma, telling me in her broken English to quit stomping around.
In the back of the apartment, there were black cherry trees. Me and my brother would go down there and practically strip the trees clean. The back yard was communal, so we really shouldn’t have been doing that, but we were silly kids. The rest of the back yard was divided into plots for each tenet to use for gardens and stuff.
Yeah, I bought SimCity DS and found that it had an unlock code for the Washington Monument (a GameStop Exclusive!).
I figured that there were more and searched the web. I found a list, but it was missing one of the monuments (#12). Being the kind of person who can’t stand a missing bit of information, I went looking. I finally found it, but it took some work because none of the lists had the number next to them. So I compiled a complete list to share with anyone else who gets SimCity DS.
So I have finally submitted It’s All Text! to Babelzilla, the mozilla translation site. It took a little work to get in, though. There isn’t anything so simple that I cannot break it. 
My mother, who has a lot of friends that send her hoaxes, email chain letters and other forms of internet tomfoolery on a regular basis, got an email from 41 Pounds. 41 Pounds claims that they will stop your US Postal junk mail if you give them money.
I took a quick look around and found similar services at StopTheJunkMail and Greendimes.
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