Archive for February, 2006

Posted in Coding, Coppermine, General at 9:22 pm February 20, 2006

I spent my Presidents Day holiday coding. Yeah, I’m a freak; coding is fun and relaxing (and stimulating) to me so that’s what I enjoy doing when I have time off.
Basically, I needed to upgrade the Coppermine skin for Viper so that it’s fully compatible with Viper X1. I was able to use [...]

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Posted in General, Tips at 5:28 pm February 19, 2006

Did you know that oxytocin is a sleep-inducing hormone? And did you know O* causes the brain to release oxytocin? Next time you have trouble sleeping, instead of taking sleep medication, get some lovin’. And if you don’t have a partner handy, use that handy partner.
On the flip side, if your partner passes [...]

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Posted in General, Venting at 9:59 am

My reborn blog has been up for about a week and I already got comment spam. Word travels fast.
But I won’t get mad; I get glad… to report the sites of the spammers to Google’s spam report form.
Silly spammers: Your comments won’t see the light of day since I use comment [...]

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Posted in Cats, Tips at 12:52 pm February 18, 2006

This tutorial will show tips on training a cat to:
Sit, shake (paw), gimme 5, high 5, sit up, wave
Training was inspired by Kittens for Dummies By Dusty Rainbolt.
Note: Dogs do tricks to please their master/owner. Cats do tricks if they get something out of it.

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Posted in Coding, Coppermine, General, Google at 10:06 pm February 15, 2006

If you use Coppermine Photo Gallery and have taken photos in different locales, you can now pinpoint where those photos were taken with a mod I have been working on. Instructions for the mod are posted in the thread called Coppermine photos/files on Google Maps. To see the map of places where I [...]

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Posted in Cats, General at 8:48 pm

When I adopted my cats from Pets In Need, the adoption fee included their shots, neutering, collar, microchip, and a bag of (not Iams) cat food for each of them.
The catfood had a coupon inside so I bought another bag. At Pet Club, they sold the catfood in a plastic pitcher that included a couple [...]

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Posted in General, News at 12:20 am

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olypairs15feb15,1,5601607.story?coll=la-headlines-sports
I admit I hadn’t planned to watch the Winter Olympics… my Tivo queue is out of control and I didn’t need to add more to it. But when a coworker mentioned that pairs figure skating was going to be on at night, I figured I’d tune in. When I did, it was the latter part [...]

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