Wanna buy a castle?
Gallery of about 100 or so castles for sale around the world. After seeing these, I kinda want a moat. read more | digg story
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Fun with PHP and WordPress
Guy over here asked how to display hockey scores on his blog. Here?s my solution? Edit: Fixed a minor problem with the regular expression. Some of the soccer team names caused problems on that feed. A quick googling tells me that exactscores.com seems to have feeds for scores for lots of stuff, however they also … Continue reading “Fun with PHP and WordPress”
Happy Towel Day!
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the … Continue reading “Happy Towel Day!”
40 years of X-Men
Check this out. Yeah, thatÂ’s all forty years of X-Men, on DVD, in a printable format, for only $40. (Update: $33 now!) 485 comics. 17,500 pages. How freakinÂ’ awesome is that? There’s also a version that comes with the Ultimate X-Men on DVD as well. It’s $50 for the bundle of both of them. Here’s … Continue reading “40 years of X-Men”
Whole body pain
Is this some sort of consequence of being 30 again? This post-drinking weekend whole body pain thing? Because if it is, then I’m going to have to start researching high quality medications again. My ankle is hurt, the muscles in my back are strained, I can’t turn my neck… all because of the music festival. … Continue reading “Whole body pain”
Wolfgang Puck is pissed!
Heh. I blogged about those Wolfgang Puck self-heating coffee things about a year ago. Well, now it seems that they’re being recalled due to reports of some of them exploding and such. I’ve gotten them a few times since then, and never had any problems with them, but still, I can see how one in … Continue reading “Wolfgang Puck is pissed!”
Some inventions are just pure genius…
Check this one out: The Lazydrinker It’s a modified portable cooler that is designed to hold, cool, and mix up to 16 bottles of beverages. Basically it pressurizes the bottles and uses that to pump the liqour out, which then goes into your drink. It therefore produces whatever drink you want on command. The mixer … Continue reading “Some inventions are just pure genius…”
30boxes Widget
Narendra Rocherolle asked me to convert the Google Calendar widget into a 30boxes capable widget. No problem, it only took like 10 minutes. So if you use 30boxes and want a nice and simple WordPress Widget for displaying events on your calendar, well, here you go: 30boxes Widget This is, of course, a first stab … Continue reading “30boxes Widget”
Coastr Widget
Ran across Coastr yesterday while I was reading some blogs about beer. It’s kinda nifty. Very simple app. It lets you put what beers you like to drink and where you like to drink them and tells you other people who have similar tastes. The idea being that maybe you can find some new beers … Continue reading “Coastr Widget”
Google Calendar Widget
Note: This widget does NOT work with WordPress 2.1 and up. Don’t bother trying. ———— I created a new widget for my blog. It’s a simple little thing that shows stuff from my Google Calendar. You can find it as my “Upcoming Events” sidebar, bottom left. Okay, so it doesn’t have much there yet, I … Continue reading “Google Calendar Widget”
