The wordpress plugin to insert popups into posts continues. It is slow going, to say the least. I’m brushing up on my PHP, SQL, Javascript, HTML/DHTML, and CSS. Any little bell or whistle I want to add currently takes about a day to figure out just because I’m rusty on all this stuff.
Currently, it correctly [...]

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Radiohead released a new music video, it has been posted on youtube. The song, House of Cards, is great and the video is a pretty amazing. The innovation here is that the video was making by real time 3D laser scanning instead of using a camera.
Radiohead’s website (greenplastic.com) posted a section of an interview with music video’s [...]

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If you’ve played the Xbox 360 game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, then you know that not only is it an addictive game, but also is very open-ended. However as in any game, as much as it does a pretty good of simulating a real world, there are some aspects where the AI falls short.

Break into NPC’s homes, [...]

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Here’s an album from 2007 that I was hoping would be better than I think it ended up. Bright Eyes’ album Cassadaga, is the follow-up to I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. Overall, I think that I like Conor Oberst- although sometimes his lyrics sound like he’s trying too [...]

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My attempts to build a plugin for popping up images when you mouseover a word in a post has dragged me down into the maze of wordpress plugins. I realized shortly after starting that what I’m trying to do essentially is a security violation in wordpress. I was trying to put javascript to popup images, [...]

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Wordpress is nice in that it is very configurable, if you are willing to put the time in to configure it. And by configure it, I mean edit php and html documents.
Wordpress allows you to insert images and insert links, but I’d like to build a combined feature, that is insert mouseover images. Basically, something [...]

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