fleshyorgans

Journal of a software engineer with a romantic heart

New WordPress

Just installed the latest and greatest WordPress. Kinda easy, all things considered. I rather like the post autosave, plugin management, and data import features. Welcome additions! I also installed SimpleTags tag management plugin. It is hot. The autotagging feature is extremely useful, as is the tag suggestions overlay on post entry. Still, even with the [...]

Mii Surreality

A little less than a year ago I was big into creating miis in the Mii channel on the Wii. I created bunches — some good, some not so good. Some of them I created with the intent that I would never use them, but in the hopes that they would show up in the [...]

Duel of the Butt

Make sure you crank the volume before watching this gem.

Chocolate Cat (video)

Testing out video editing using a free Ubuntu program called “Kino”. It’s pretty sweet. One important note: if Kino playback is very choppy, you may need to specify /dev/dsp in the audio device section. I have a crappy, 10 year old sound card in this box — it’s not well supported in ANY operating system [...]

Note About the Free Wii Remote Sleeve

If you got that free, squishy wiimote sleeve thing from Nintendo, double-check your sensor bar sensitivity settings. This evening I finally tried to fix the cursor jumping around problem I’ve been experiencing, lately. Testing with and without the remote cover, I found that the cover actually reflects the signal, as well as enhances said reflection. [...]

A Homebrewing Idea

I just thought of the greatest idea for homebrew: a glass fermenter with a fake baby in the middle. Alternately, hundreds of tiny, plastic babies to toss into the fermenter. When primary fermentation gets going, can you imagine the churning of all the plastic fetuses? I’m trying to figure out a way that these could [...]

Quick and dirty hack for acts_as_attachment file movement

Say you’re working on something that uses acts_as_attachment. Also say that the person who wrote it decided that all the different models’ attachments would save in the same place. Also suppose that you want to change the file location of all those uploads. Well, here’s a quick and dirty migration that’ll save you from moving [...]

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