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Stuff I've been trying to do
July 18, 2004

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
July 16, 2004

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…”

Falling Stars
July 15, 2004

While we were out at the mall the other night I got a pack of glow-in-the-dark stars to stick to the walls in Abby’s room. My thinking was that anything that makes her room a more interesting place to her at night is a good thing.

So we hung the stars aroudn the room. They’re not stickers, which is what I thought when I bought the box. They’re plastic stars with a small wad of that tacky stuff you use to hang posters. You stick a little bit to the back of each star and press it onto the wall.

Gone Camping
July 15, 2004

We were wandering about BJ’s yesterday when we ran into the miniature tents on the display rack for the tent sales. An idea occurred to me - I suggested to Berta that we take a tent to visit your aunt’s cabin in the poconos. Abby would surely like sleeping outside, it would be a nice little adventure for the three of us, and would surely be better than vieing for space in her aunt’s little cabin with the rest of Berta’s sisters.

So we walked over to Dick’s Sporting Goods (since the tents at BJ’s all stunk) and looked around over there. They had a kit that included a tent, 2 sleeping bags, 2 folding chairs, a lantern, and some other junk all stuffed into a large Rubbermaid-like tub. That was $200. In an effort to get exactly what we wanted and save a little cash, we decided to get everything separately instead.

Wawa Oddities
July 14, 2004

Normally, I have a decent time shopping at Wawa. I’ve been preturbed lately, though. Apparently, the Wawa in Thorndale has some wacky thing going on all the time there that causes the employees to meet in a huddle in the front of the store near the meat case. I suppose that’s fine if it’s store business and all, but here must have ben six employees in uniform there. When the meeting dispersed, none of them went back to work.

Instead, I was left to stand in line with a clerk who didn’t know how to reset the register after a purchase. I overpaid (as you always do at Wawa) for my sandwich, which only had one tomato, and it was on top of the lettuce, which was on top of the meat. Again. It sits there on top and collects all of the salt and pepper. So after you take the first bite into such a sandwich, you have not salt, pepper, or tomato, because you have to swallow the tomato (and everything covering it) in one bite so that the rest of the tomato slice doesn’t fall off the sandwich.