Archive for January, 2009

VectorLover 2 — Initial Release

Posted by Mark | Filed under Web Design, WordPress

As pre­vi­ously men­tioned, I’ve been work­ing on updat­ing and cus­tomiz­ing the Vec­torLover Word­Press theme to include some of Word­Press 2.7’s new fea­tures and to inte­grate with cer­tain Word­Press plu­g­ins which I like. This evening I’m happy to announce the ini­tial release of Vec­torLover 2. Fea­tures Threaded com­ments with quick reply links. Inte­grated plu­gin sup­port for: Now-Reading, […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 29, 2009

XBMC + Hulu = GOLD!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Software

I’ve been home sick today and when not sleep­ing I’ve been work­ing to upgrade the ver­sion of XBMC I have installed on my soft­mod­ded XBox.  I had been run­ning the last sta­ble release, but run­ning into the occa­sional prob­lem.  First off I’ll note that Nau­tilus 2.22.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.04.1, does a crappy job of working […]

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Read more | Comments (12) | Jan 26, 2009

The Plumbing Nightmare Continues

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Finally heard back from the plumber’s part guy. They have to order direct from the man­u­fac­turer as none of their sup­pli­ers have the part. The bleepied-bleeping bleep man­u­fac­turer will not ship overnight. Expected tran­sit time of the part? 2–3 weeks Yes, that’s right. They said it will take weeks. I told him I’d have to get […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 21, 2009

Do You Game?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Elsewhere

I used to love FPS games; but as I’ve got­ten older, I’ve lost most of my taste for them. Prob­a­bly because my reac­tion time is down and I’ve had less spare cash for PC upgrades to be able to run mod­ern FPS games. I’m also a bit cheap so I don’t tend to go for the […]

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Read more | Comments (8) | Jan 18, 2009

Plumb Fun

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Thanks to the loverly weather we’ve been hav­ing in Iowa, our house is hav­ing some plumb­ing issues. The sub­zero tem­per­a­tures caused the sup­ply line pipes to our down­stairs tub to freeze, but for­tu­nately not burst. Unfor­tu­nately, when they thawed a bit it freed up some of the years of lime/calcium/crud in the pipes. The build-up […]

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Read more | Comments (4) | Jan 17, 2009

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