all things me

I got a new computer!!! I’m not on it yet, because Dad took the flat display for a test drive I haven’t had time to hook it up yet anyway (then it’ll take me days and days to get the important files moved — and save games). Simon Jr. is just the “baby name”, I haven’t thought of a name for it yet.

It’s Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T with Pentium 4 (3,2 Ghz), 1024 Mb or DDR RAM, 200Gb disk, GeForce6600 with 256Mb in PCI Express port. And then some. Oh oh oh, and flat 19″ display.

*does a happy nerd dance*

Via Jafer:
What does your birth date mean?

Your birth on the 16th day of the month gives a sense of loneliness and generally the desire to work alone.
You are relatively inflexible, and insist on your being independent.
You need a good deal of time to rest and to meditate.
You are introspective and a little stubborn.
Because of this, it may not be easy for you to maintain permanent relationships, but you probably will as you are very much into home and family.
This birth day inclines to interests in the technical, the scientific, and to the religious or the unknown realm of spiritual explorations.
The date gives you a tendency to seek unusual approaches and makes your style seem a little different and unique to those around you.
Your intuition is aided by the day of your birth, but most of your actions are bedded in logic, responsibility, and the rational approach.
You may be emotional, but have a hard time expressing these emotions.
Because of this, there may be some difficulty in giving or receiving affection.

Ahhh… hilarious. Some poor sod is trying to write JavaScript alert popups in comments. His (no offense guys, but I bet it’s a he) newest attempt is a recursive function. Clever.

*raspberry*

Last week Second Sight arrived from a game club but, alas, it was missing the key code sticker. Before returning the game to get a new one I emailed the club with the game key doubting that would help. Lucky thing I did, because they were able to give me the code which I really really hope works… then I’ll get to throw mental hospital guards around with my PSI powers — can’t wait!

I still haven’t finished with Vampire the Masquerade, hardly started Farcry, haven’t even touched True Crime or Deus Ex 2 for that matter. I’m afraid DE2 won’t work on my computer, I’m in the process of getting a new one — I’m trying to find a machine good enough to my requirements. The problem is, I’ve only found computers that have a lot of Ghz, but not enough Gb, or vice versa. Hmph. Too bad Alienware is not available in Finland. I’d like one of those fancy laptops. Maybe I’ll have to travel to England for a little computer shopping; I wonder what the customs would think about that. Oy the taxes…

Now I must get back to the Quest of the Mysterious NullPointerException. I just want to go home because I’m so tired! I read Dark Tower VII all weekend (only 168 pages to go!) and noticed that reading is tiring. Perhaps because it’s a dream-like state without the refreshing qualities? No idea.

Someone at the WP Forums asked how one would list 5 most recent posts but not the current post if it was one of the most recent ones… So, this is what my brain spouted out:

<?php
if( get_query_var(‘p’) ) {
$current = get_query_var(‘p’);
} else {
$postname = get_query_var(‘name’);
$current = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT ID from $wpdb->posts WHERE post_name = ‘$postname'”);
}
print “<ul>”;
$count = 0;
$posts = get_posts(‘numberposts=6’);
foreach ($posts as $post) :
setup_postdata($post);
global $id;
if ( $count < 5 and $id != $current ) { ?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php
$count++;
}
endforeach;
print “</ul>”;
} ?>

From a WP forum thread:

target=”_new” is deprecated
…
target=”_new” is annoying

AAAAAAAGH! Target=”_new” doesn’t exist. It’s _blank. If you want a name a window “new” (or have a frame by that name), you should leave the underscore (_) out.

I’m so kind I didn’t write this in the forum…

Go to Google Moon and zoom all the way in…

Shame that feature has been removed. There was cheese on the surface of the moon!

Blimey. My current best in No Brainer

is the best score all month

Blah. My parents came home from the summer cottage today. I had been “home alone” with my sister and the dog since Thursday, and it was soooo wonderful (if you don’t count the fact that my sister was there). I worked from home these three days and it was much cooler here in the basement than at the department where I have to gasp for air from the window every once in a while.

I didn’t get to be on the computer a lot (perhaps I could’ve, but I chose not to), instead I continued reading Dark Tower VII — at last. On Saturday I did go to the movies (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, very good and funny, and well acted), and a bookstore… Loot: Dead Zone, Skeleton Crew, and Gerald’s Game (!!!!!). Gerald’s Game is the only book that has ever made me nauseous, which makes it very good! I’ve been looking for it for a looong time.

My sister complained that she never gets to be home alone. I guess the youngest always have to get everything younger than the first-borns — which annoys me immensely. I was properly home alone for the first time when I was 22 — last summer that was. My sister just turned 17. Of course, she wasn’t alone this time, but without the parents it’s almost as good.

One year ago, almost exactly (if I had remembered this on Monday), I started using WordPress. I’m very glad I ventured from the old and familiar environment of Perl in the form of Greymatter to the scary world of databases and PHP in the form of WP. WP has been very easy to use, customise and tweak. After the theme system came in 1.3 it’s been a breeze to upgrade (some people complain about the frequent upgrades. I don’t) especially now that I remember to “document” my core tweaking.

I’m too tired to write anything grandiose. I love WP. I’ve never had any problems with it (well, little error messages or layout-gone-crazy just don’t make me shake in my boots unlike some, it seems).

Happy anniversary!