A few weeks ago, I upgraded my primary server to some version of php5 (from php4). It’s been some time since I moved from php3 to php4 (even though I still have some files with a .php3 extension), but I don’t remember it being a huge change. I upgraded because there was some small feature [...]
Having noticed what seemed like it might be an urgent-ish security-related post show up in the mass of post links at the bottom of my WordPress dashboard, then following some links: There seems to be two kinds of hackery going on, just like I’ve described: 1. Inserting “invisible” HTML full of links (for NSFW sites) [...]
I’ve started to get really into using Google Calendar and it works all fine and dandy on my desktop (multiple large monitors), but when I get to my smaller laptop screen it’s hrd to see more than an event or two per day in the 4-week view (especially since I keep my browser window small-ish). [...]
http://2718.us/lj-stat/ is a page giving some comparative statistics on various LJ-code-based sites. The underlying data is updated approximately daily. All numbers are based on what is supposed to be the “raw” data at /stat/stats.txt, even though on some or all sites there are significant discrepancies between the numbers reported in /stats/stats.txt and those shown at [...]
Through the tail end of last week and into this weekend, I’ve been learning some (more) javascript, learning to use the jQuery library/framework, and learning to make AJAX work. I’ve discovered just how much of a royal pain it is to trap keyboard events in a way that works across platforms (mac-pc, mostly, is what [...]
Hello. This may or may not end up being a place where I post random things I’m pondering or doing that relate in some way to technology. I don’t know yet. At the moment, it’s the realization of a random thought combined with an exercise in procrastination.