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^top   Unclassified   Detail   - Current^ - Next >  Posted: 02/02/10 ID: 1265159639 # 1

In other words, as a result of the Watergate-era campaign finance restrictions, it is now settled law that congressmen are sufficiently corruptible that they can't be trusted with campaign donations of more than a few thousand dollars. 

... 

Which raises the question: How can they be trusted with our tax dollars?

Link: from here...

^top   And Everything   Detail   < Previous - Current^ - Next >  Posted: 01/27/10 ID: 1264633095 # 2

Penguins

And this... 

Because Sarah and Captain Kirk have gone away...

Link: where I got this

^top   Life   Detail   < Previous - Current^ - Next >  Posted: 12/12/09 ID: 1260630526 # 3

Installing the HbG CMS (gotta find a nicer name for it-- How about "Handy blogging Gizmo"?) on this site has caused me to rework, re-jigger, re-whatever, just about every line of code. (Ah! it's called refactoring code! 

I've made it leaner, meaner and less-crashable. I've added some nice CMS tweaks to the Back Room to make it more pleasant (but you need Safari to see them). After I get it finalized (I think I'm 99.9% there) I'll rework the my.hillbillygeek.net installation, so you're seeing it first here! 

Woo hoo. I think I'm gonna change the Version number to 6.0. 

Other changes:

Automagically adds Authors to an approved list of commenters; if you have access to the site, you have the ability to leave a comment, using your login and email account. 

Better security: can't call up a post by typing its ID into the URL if you're not logged in

^top   Geekiness   Detail   < Previous - Current^ - Next >  Posted: 12/02/09 ID: 1259814358 # 4

Here's the code for a self-starting visitor counter for your site: You don't have to do anything; it creates its own counter file, based on the name of the file it's in. An index.php page will create an "indexcount.dat" file, etc. 

Yeah this is geeky, and very much coding 101, but hey. I like Php, even though It's not as sexy as Ruby. 

 
(open phptag) 
//text-file based counter (make sure the enclosing folder is chmod 775) 
$countfile = pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_FILENAME)."count.dat" ; //creates a separate count file named for any page it is on. 
$resetdate = strftime("%D",time()) ; // creates a human-readable date 
$count=file($countfile, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES); // reads the count file 
if(count($count)<2) { $count = array($resetdate, $visitors = 0 ) ; } //this initalizes an empty count file 
$countdate= array_shift($count) ; //takes the first line and uses it for the date 
if(empty($countdate)) { $countdate=$resetdate ; } //this is in case the first line of the file is empty 
$visitors = ++$count[0] ; // increments the visitors number 
if(!is_numeric($visitors)) { $visitors=1 ; } // handles error if something weird is on the visitor line 
if(!file_put_contents($countfile,$countdate."\n".$visitors)) { // error handling file permissions 
echo 'Can not write to '.$countfile' chmod to 755? ' ; } 
echo $visitors.' visitors since '.$countdate ; // the visitor message  
(close php tag) 

Link: as seen here

^top   Geekiness   Detail 0 Comments   < Previous - Current^ - Next >  Posted: 11/29/09 ID: 1259530275 # 5

My resume was so out of date, it was embarrassing! I wanted to add some content here, so I did a quick install of my new blogging system. 

Now, it's not so much out of date.

Link: See the resume

^top   Life   Detail   < Previous - Current^ - Next >  Posted: 11/27/09 ID: 1259309506 # 6