Asymptomatic

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The *bleep* radio

On my way to work this morning I was listening to Y-100, waiting through a song for their morning banter. It was “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit. There are some bad words in the song, which the station had bothered to “bleep” out.

These days, there isn’t a bleep on the radio when you would otherwise hear an expletive. You hear a gap in the vocal audio track, but not the music. Presumably, the recording company has produced a “clean” version of the track where the bad word is simply removed from the full recording. Well, that seems like a great idea, but they never fully remove the word.

MicroWiki

I wrote a Wiki yesterday. It’s under 25k in one file. I tried blearily to explain to Berta what a Wiki was this morning, and I don’t think she was impressed by my description.

A Wiki is a way that you can easily create linked pages without using a lot of HTML markup. The appeal is that you don’t have to know the HTML tags, and a lot of the building of the pages is accomplished by knowing a few simple rules.

About 5 miles down the road from Coatesville. I’m eating fries in a Burger King on the fringe of this burnt-out suburban steel city.

Stuff I've been trying to do

Most people who read this blog probably don’t come here because of the WordPress plugins I’ve been writing. I’ll briefly explain. The software that I run this site with these days is called WordPress. You can write plugins for it that provide extra functionality.

One of the plugins I’ve written is called Exhibit. Exhibit is a pretty cool photo display plugin. With it, you can attach any number of photos to an individual post, and it will create thumbnails and popup links automatically. The cool little file picker makes it easy to upload and select files from your site. Short of embedding a dedicated gallery script, I would say that it’s the best thing out there for displaying photos in WordPress.

Internet Helldesk

This is an old video I found in my downloads folder. It’s a humorous (ficticious) exchange between a veteran help-desk employee and a new trainee, who is learning the ropes on his first day.

“Has it booted up? No, sir, don’t kick your computer…”