Archive for December, 2007

The Spinning Top Museum

buckets She collects tops, I collect buckets. The only difference is she collects them in real life.

Today, I went on a long car ride with my family. About an hour long each way. We went to a crowded burger place called “Fred’s” that claimed to have “The best burgers in the world”. We waited for over a half hour to get our food. It was ok.

Then, we went into the place that is called The Top Museum in Burlington Wisconsin. When we came in, I saw an old building packed with tops and brain teasers for sale. I thought to myself: “This is a museum? It looks more Visit the blog to read more of The Spinning Top Museum

Fletching Money

My original idea was to make 88 coins per unstrung willow longbow.  That’s impossible.  Who would want to buy over thirty thousand of something that’s almost worthless?

My new idea (which will work) is to sell them to a general store and get 16 coins minimum each.  I already sold my willow longbow supply in honor of being under 30k to go, I will sell my entire supply again when I’m under 20k and 10k.

I GAINED A TOTAL OF 123.616K TODAY! Visit the blog to read more of Fletching Money

My email server sucks.

Before I start this blog post, I want to say something completely un-related:  I switched to PHP5 today.

Ok, so I tested out a new contact form that I’m building and…  15 minutes later I get the email in my inbox.  Which means that if I’d used Google’s GMail servers to send messages, I’d be saving 15 minutes of (what I hope is) waiting in a line for my message to be sent.

I was searching around for a way to use SMTP with my PHP configuration, and I found this.  From what I have figured out so far, it’s the perfect addition to my contact form.  I was using the contact form by Nate Dentzau, but with this new PHP class Visit the blog to read more of My email server sucks.

December 10th, 2007: The day that Runescape died.

Today is the day that Jagex ruined the game for the rest of its existence.  Really good players of the game are quitting now and are never to return.  Here’s your mistake, Jagex: Visit the blog to read more of December 10th, 2007: The day that Runescape died.

Cash on the forums?

bbpressphpBB has a cash mod, but the base system is bloated like Opera web browser.  bbPress is better for a base forum system, as it’s faster within reason.  The only problem is that there are only half the modifications you could ask for available.  (Most of the features of phpBB are plugins for bbPress.)  What I’m going to try to do is make a cash mod plugin for bbPress.  Do you think I can do it?  What features will I need to include? [tags]bbPress, Programming, Plugins[/tags] Visit the blog to read more of Cash on the forums?