Hey all. Sorry I missed that date to release the latest version of Coralize for Wordpress. I’ve been going through some person shit lately and I haven’t had much energy for my fun projects. I’m starting to get back on track, though. Expect a new release soon. Thanks for understanding.
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
-George Bernard Shaw
It’s been a couple weeks since I released an update to the Coralize plugin. I’ve been working on testing and implementing some changes recommended by the users. Thank you all for your feedback. Expect an update to be available before Monday.
My brother and I are working on a fun little app for the Mac. Here’s a cool looking image I made with it yesterday. Click the pic to see a larger sized version.Believe it or not, this video was created in house at Microsoft. Then it leaked. Now we all get to have a good laugh.
Sometimes the details are important. Other times they’re boring. For example:
On Tuesday, I payed $15 to have an old woman grab my nuts. When my girlfriend found out, she stabbed me in the arm.
See, that’s an interesting story. You read that, and you’re thinkin’ “what the hell?” or “serves you right”. But if you had all the details, you probably wouldn’t find the story nearly as fascinating:
On Tuesday, I had my anual physical. On Thursday, my girlfriend, who happens to be a phlebotomist, drew my blood for the tests.
Boring.
Some crazy guys over at Microsoft came up with some interpreted programming language built on top of the C# interpreter. Seems like it could be really fun to play with and an excellent teaching tool. Check it out at http://www.kidsprogramminglanguage.com/.
That sounds like a good way to do some programming in the classroom, but I doubt a whole lot of kids would just pick it up on their own. I can think of a completely different way to expose youngin’s to programming in a way that requires far less outside encouragement. That way is World of Warcraft macros and UI scripting.
My little brother and all his buddies are fluent. From what I’ve seen, its basically javascript with a different set of objects. I think the best way to teach someone anything is to fool them into learning it.
I don’t normally watch my server logs. In fact, I haven’t even looked at them in a while. This afternoon, my server was acting up. Don’t really know why. It was just kind of unresponsive. So I rebooted it and pulled up the logs. It appears there was some sort of an attempted attack. I’m not really sure if any damage was done, it doesn’t look like it. Anyway, so I’ve got my access log file open and I’m doing a little bit of looking around, when all of the sudden new items are getting added on there like crazy. I watched as almost every page on my site was pulled down. Meanwhile, I was doing a reverse lookup on the ip address. It turned out to be Google. They spidered my site! Yay!
Anyway, after those hits started dying down, I got hit again, this time by some ip addresses belonging to Microsoft. Then Inktomi (something to do with Yahoo! search). Then I got hit by another Google ip from an entirely different range. I’m not really sure what I’d done to warrant all the sudden attention, but I’m really interested in finding out. I’m gonna set some stuff up to let me know when I’m being hit by robots so I can see how often they actually come by.
