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An honorary Duggar

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Nophead’s Mendel1 has produced 15 sets of Mendel parts, and is hard at work on it’s 16th!!!  My understanding is that it would take about 60 hours to print a full set of Mendel parts.  I have to admire anyone who prints up Mendel/Mini-Mendel parts because of the amount of dedication it would take to do so.  After spending 90 hours2 printing something, I don’t know that I could part with it.

My point is that we really have guys like Nophead, Spacexula, and Cyrozap3 to thank for cranking out parts and pushing replication forward.

I hereby bestow upon you gentlemen the Duggar medal of continuous replication.

  1. I don’t know if he’s named it yet – so I’ll call it Anna until he corrects me. [↩]
  2. I’m just assuming it would take me 50% longer since I don’t know what I’m doing… [↩]
  3. Dude, I realized yesterday I’ve been misspelling your name.  I’ll go back through and fix that – sorry! [↩]

WordPress II

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I tend to see the world through WordPress eyes.1 When I find (or write) a clever bit of script that would be useful to a WordPress website, I tend to convert it into a WordPress plugin.  I did this with my PieChart Plugin and a few other knick-knacky plugins.

I just noticed Cryozap Cyrozap‘s Amazon affiliate link converter PHP script.

It occurs to me that it would be relatively easy to build a WordPress plugin that searches through a post/page, finds Amazon links, and then turns them into affiliate links…  I think this could be useful in several of my sites, actually.

Update:  Cyrozap – sory fore mispellnig yoru mane.

  1. You see, the subject is WordPress double-I, as in WordPress I’s, as in WordPress eyes… [↩]

Cyrozap – ARE YOU HAPPY NOW???

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Cryozap Cyrozap, I mean, is there anything else I can get you?  A moist towelette?  A cotton shammy?  Perhaps you would like a bloom from the titan arum?1  Shall I bottle the nuance of the Mona Lisa’s smile for you?  Please just tell me what the heck you want and I will just do it!!!

What will it take to make you happy???

Kidding aside –  thank you.  Apparently the mobile version of MakerBlock went quite mad when viewed on a mobile device.  I’ve yanked out the mobile version – so hopefully it will look a lot better now.

If you see a problem with the site, please let me know. 2

Update:  Cyrozap – sory fore mispellnig yoru mane.

  1. By some reports, it blooms about once every three years in the wild. [↩]
  2. I may make fun of you a little bit, but I will absolutely thank you as well. [↩]

Blame Cyrozap

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Cyrozap‘s recent vociferous comments about truncated feeds were basically on point.

He noticed that I had recently changed my RSS feed settings to serve up truncated posts, rather than full content.  I made this change in mostly because I was tired of dealing with content theft.  However, I’m reasonably sure this will probably not be an issue any longer. While the points made by those articles are certainly valid, I would point out that it is far easier to steal content from an RSS feed than it is to write a content scraper.  Having written both, once upon a time, I can attest to this from experience.  Truncated feeds may not be a deterrent to all – but it will deter those who are just using a WordPress plugin to suck down RSS content.

In any case, I left the RSS feed settings as they were – due to inertia and because I assumed no one would really notice.  But, since I haven’t had to deal with stolen content in a little while and at least one person prefers un-truncated feeds…  the long rambling RSS posts are back!

If you find my rambling babbling showing up in your RSS feed, well, you have Cryozap Cyrozap to thank.  :)

Update:  Cyrozap – sory fore mispellnig yoru mane.