Textpattern
cwh_hobo is a Textpattern plugin that will display a random hobo name from John Hodgeman's list of 700 hobo names taken from his book The Areas of my Expertise (more information here). Once installed, you use it by simply placing the follwing in any article, page, or
I did a thorough review of all the hobo names in cwh_hobo and I discovered that there were quite a few typos in the original plugin. That and there were a lot of unencoded entities as well, so that’s fixed now as of version 0.2. You can
For the last year or so, perhaps longer, I’ve noticed something interesting: I rarely get sick. I think I may have had a cold about several months ago, but that’s it. This is a new thing for me. There was a time when I use to get colds
Well, as is typical with any codo/loft purchasing endeavour, my occupancy date has been pushed out a few months. If you've been following along you'll no doubt be aware that this isn't the first time things have been delay although this is only
I’ve been teaching myself a bit of PHP and, as I’ve learned from past experience, the best way to go about this sort of thing is through practical application. What you need to do is to actually create something useful, something that you’ll actually use in your
Just around my first year of university, perhaps earlier, I was a huge fan of a TV series from England called The Secret Life of Machines which aired over here on the Discovery Channel. In each episode Tim Hunkin and his co-host Rex Garrod would explain how something worked, like
I just added a couple more feeds to the Christopher Planet! RSS feed: one from my ClaimID page, which shows recent changes, and one for my latest events at Upcoming.org. I haven't actually added them to the site proper, that will happen eventually once I settle on
This morning started off well. Remember yesterday when I got a free chocolate bar? Well, it happened again. I know, know! I believe Hershey’s is having some sort of promotion going on. So anyway, this time around it was a Hershey’s Special Dark with Almonds. So good, but
Today I was reminded again of why I like working at Yonge and Eglinton. Usually, during the work week around the typical lunch hour, somebody is giving away something free. Today for instance, I just got a free Oh Henry! bar. How cool is that? Once I even got a
I spent a few hours experimenting with SimplePie and, thanks to the Sorting multiple feeds by time and date tutorial, I’ve managed to cobble together an RSS feed for Christopher Planet. Now you can subscribe to the feed and be able to track even the most banal minutia of
A few months ago I purchased horrel.mobi with the vague inclination of actually doing something with it like, you know, a mobile version of this site. I struggled a bit with how to do this since I was having a hard time trying to figure out how to serve
So hey, remember when I mentioned that my toilet randomly flushes throughout the day? Well, it still does it. I spent a bit more time looking into it and I just can’t figure it out. Clearly something’s broken somehow, but it’s just not anything obvious. No matter,
