Tonight we went to Walmart for some necessities, and while we were there we got Evan a little treat. It’s an Aquadoodle Mini Mat with Thomas on it. It’s just a little pen that holds water along with a couple of coloring book pages. When you get the pages wet, the black and white pages […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Firebug is awesome
I’ve been fooling around with web development for quite some time, but I’ve never been all that serious about it. I wrote a photo gallery plugin for WordPress in PHP, but I didn’t really know what I was doing. This evening I’ve been working on the AJAX portion of my plugin and I finally decided […]
Guys’ Camping Trip to Starved Rock
A couple of weekends ago some buddies and I took a weekend trip to Starved Rock for a men-only camping trip. There were five of us: me, Jeremy, Dave, Eric and Colin, but the camper wasn’t all that crowded. Parking was, however, since most of us had to drive separately. Jeremy and I headed to […]
NiMH Battery Testing Complete
After several weeks of testing, I’ve finally completed my analysis of all my rechargeable batteries. I know I’ll probably catch a little grief for spending my time on a seemingly pointless endeavour, but using the results of these tests, I’ll know which of my batteries I can trust. I’ve also learned a little bit about […]
Stompers!
Last week at work, the topic of toys from our childhood came up. One toy with many shared fond memories were the AA-powered 4×4 trucks called “Stompers.” Apparently they’re still made, at least according to these enthusiast sites: http://www.route21.com/stompers/ http://www.stomper4x4.com/ Here’s a short video of one in action. See if it brings back any memories: […]
phpBB spam problem
For another project, I run a simple bulletin board using phpBB. Over the past several months it’s basically been unusable due to spam. I think the bots are able to defeat the standard captcha that phpBB provides. I tried a number of solutions (increased requirements for posting, hidden fields, reducing the reward for spamming, etc.), […]