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Yearly Archives: 2004
Nekid Barbies and Trolls
One problem with having little girls is that you can come home from work to a pile of naked Barbies. The two problems are: 1) they have too many Barbies and 2) their little fingers can undress Barbies but cannot dress them. Why they end up in a pile in the middle of the living room floor is not clear to me.
As the little girls grow older, they learn to dress their Barbies, and the phenomenon cleans itself up. Having three girls, I’ve had to endure this problem many times over the years. I thought it was all a distant memory.
Then I walked in on this:
Kelly and Mary Claire had decided to inventory all of their Barbie clothing. They were arranging it in stacks by category. Something of a mini laundry folding. I don’t know why they were doing this, nor did I ask. I just ran for the camera crying out “evidence! evidence!”
Reviewing the evidence, I see now that there were trolls involved. (What kind of clothes do they have? Click in to zoom if you dare.) And I think there is a Ken in the middle somewhere. Wish I could see his face.
My friend Greg Willits, who now has four boys, is likely to never experience walking in on such a graphic scene of twisted plastic flesh.
OS X Network Mounts
A bit dated because it looks like the Directory Access utility has moved the mount function to the NetInfo utility….
Purple Knockout Lyreleaf Sage
Walter Reeve’s “cool plant of the week,” Purple Knockout is a native (U.S.?) plant recommended over Ajuga.
WebDAV on OS X
Instructions on enabling WebDAV on OS X so that it can be used to host our iCAL postings instead of having to use .Mac (which I’d like to quit paying $100 per year for.)
Smarty
Photo Galleries
To build photo galleries I’ve used three methods: iPhoto’s built-in web export, an iPhoto add-on called BetterHTMLExport, and Image Rodeo.
I’m looking at Gallery as a way for any mac.fiver to publish photo galleries:
Clean URLs
I’m trying to figure out why URLs without file extensions quit working when upgrading a Domino Server to 6.5. It also does not work on the IIS server used by sjnlilburn.org.
On a Domino 5.5 server or Apache server, I’m used to being able to have something like this work:
www.sjnlilburn.org/contactus
New Gutters
He did good work:
Mitchell Gutter & Sheet Metal
Covington, GA
678-342-0890
- 6″ Cream Gutter +
- 4″ Cream Downspouts $1550
- Brown Gutter Hallet cover (top gutters only) $650
- Paint facia board $175
- Replace rotten facia and facia on back porch $50
Total: $2400
Password Protect Comments
We’re getting spammed by blog-spammers. Today an offensive couple of spams were posted. Greg called me to let me know so I could quickly delete them.
I’ll be introducing a counter measure shortly. This one seems reasonable.
Added to /mt/lib/mt/app/comments.pm just above ip ban:
my $entry_password = uc $q->param(‘password’)
or return $app->handle_error($app->translate(
“Password is required.”));
if ( $entry_password ne “PASSWORD1” && $entry_password ne “PASSWORD2”) {
return $app->handle_error($app->translate(
“Password is incorrect.”));
}