Announcing “More To The Top”

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I’ve just finished yet another plugin. This one is a REALLY simple plugin that removes the #more-123 from the end of the more link. The result is that when you click the link to go read the rest of the post, you don’t scroll down and instead are left at the top of the page.

It came about as a result of a thread in the WordPress support forums. Since modifying core files should be avoided whenever possible, I decided to write this mini-plugin.

If you’d like you download it, you can find a link to do so on the plugin’s page.

New Hosting Plan

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Woot, just switched hosting plans. My old one (which you can no longer sign up for) was running me $11.99 a month (I pay yearly though) and which got me 1 gig of space and 50 GB of transfer. Now I’m paying $9.99 a month and I get 5 gigs of storage and no real bandwidth limit to speak of (they’ll probably get mad if I use HUGE amount of bandwidth though).

And if that hosting plan sounds good to you, my host is HostRocket if you’d like to check them out (that’s a referral link that gets me money if you signup BTW).

The ORLY? Owl Has Died!

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ORLY? Owl

Update 2/12: Turns out it may have been a hoax. Makes sense since I can’t pin down an official story from anywhere. That should been a big clue to me, but of course gullible me ignored the warning signs. Oh well…

For those who have no clue what the ORLY? owl is, check out Wikipedia.

Today, well yesterday now, was a sad day — the ORLY? owl died. 🙁

Thursday, February 9th, 2006 Posted: 10:07 AM EST (1507 GMT)

SanDiego, California (AP) — Jonathan, the Snowy Owl made famous as the “ORLY” owl, has died in captivity in the San Diego Zoo.

The owl, which was 17 years old, died Tuesday afternoon after the sudden onset of pneumonia. He was young for an owl in captivity, however wild owlsonly live an average of 15 years.

David Phillips, executivedirector of the San Diego Zoo, said Jonathan had been in good healthbut started showing signs of lethargy and loss of appetite on Monday.

“This is a long sad day for us,” Phillips said.

One of his handlers, Dale Richards, also said Jonathan died quickly. “We checked his respiration rate and it was a little irregular … he wasn’t doing too well,” Richards told The Associated Press. “Early in the evening, he passed away.”

The textual phrase “o rly?” wasfirst popularized on the SomethingAwful forums. The phrase wasinitially one of many used during the FYAD sub forum’s fad ofcompressing words by removing unnecessary letters. While “O RLY?” issimply shorthand for “Oh, Really?”, the most common image macro comesfrom 4chan, where for a short while, the word “repost” was wordfiltered to “owl”. The Image macro and its attached phrase then spreadrapidly throughout the Internet.

Copied from http://i-muad-dib.livejournal.com/125903.html (couldn’t find original AP article)

WordPress v2.0.1 Released

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A bug fix version of WordPress has been released. It addresses various bugs in version 2.0, 114 in total. To summarize:

  • You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
  • Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
  • Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
  • XML-RPC uploading works.
  • Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
  • Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
  • Imports now use much less memory.
  • Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.

Go upgrade now!

My Blog Is Being Slow

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Apologies, but it seems my blog is being pretty slow, REALLY slow on some pages. A redesign and recode is in the works though, so rather than trying to figure out what’s hanging and causing the slow page loads, I’m just gonna not worry about it and instead spend the time working on the new version.

Sorry for the inconvience.

Announcing the “Battlefield 2 Stats” WordPress Plugin

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I’ve just completed a new plugin that allows you to display your Battlefield 2 profile statistics. The data is fetched via a XML feed from BF2S.com. It’s intended for your sidebar, but can also be used on a WordPress page.

It’s fully configurable via an options page in the WordPress admin area and only requires that you add the plugin’s output function to your theme’s sidebar to get it working.

To see it in action, look to your right in my sidebar, just below the weather.

For more details or to download it, check out the plugin’s homepage.