Auto Tweet has been added to the official WordPress plugin repository. It's kind of like a real plugin now.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Auto Tweet 2.0
Auto Tweet 2.0 is now available and features major new functionality. Check it out on the Auto Tweet page.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Auto Tweet 1.5 now available
New plugin update: Auto Tweet 1.5. Now with more wholesome pluginly goodness! Read more about it and download on the Auto Tweet page.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Woo! I'm cool now!
A Japanese webpage ranks my Auto Tweet plugin 50th most popular Twitter client worldwide… with two total users. Woo! I'm cool now!
Friday, July 20, 2007
Auto Tweet updated
New version of Auto Tweet available. Now with more molecules! Read about it and download.
New toy
I've changed the comment editing plugin I'm using. The new one should work exactly the same as the old one, but has a lot different under the hood. Just like the last one, I don't see what you see. You get the spiffy editing options, but I see the standard WordPress administrator stuff.
Would you be a pal and let me know if it does or doesn't work for you? If comments are so horribly broken you can't say a thing, kindly jot me a note with the contact form.
Thanks, and stuff.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Go me!
My Auto Tweet plugin now displays "from Auto Tweet" instead of "from web." Sweet!
How the hell did that happen?
One of the greatest (currently) unaddressed issues in WordPress is that there's no way to moderate user registrations. There are only two settings: anyone can register themselves (the administrator will be notified) and only the administrator creates registrations. There's no in between and no hooks for changing this with a plugin. I leave registrations open so new readers can create an account whenever they want. The problem is that spam bots will also generate registrations. I get three or four spam bots trying to register each week.
If the user name or e-mail isn't obviously spammy, I'll send an e-mail asking for confirmation. If I don't get that confirmation (and I rarely do), then I know it's spam. Here are the e-mails from the latest instance.
The automatic notification:
New user registration on your blog A Feast of Crumbs:
Username: John Doe
E-mail: nondescriptmail@majorisp.com
My challenge:
Hi!
Are you a spam bot?
I get a lot of bogus registrations. If you do not respond to this message, I will assume yours is one of them and will delete your account.
The registrant's response to my challenge:
No I'm not a spam bot. Don't even know what that is. I just got this card from Philip Morris to sign for savings and coupouns for my smokes. I went to the web site it said to and this is where I ended up. So if I'm on the wrong site pllease let me know so I can get to where I need to be. I smoke Marlboros and have for 30 plus years. I just would like to get some coupons mailed to me.
Thanx John
Next from me:
Oh! Somehow you ended way offtrack, friend. You registered on my blog at feastofcrumbs.com. I think what you're looking for is http://www.smokersignup.com/ That's where you sign up for coupons for Philip Morris products.
Next from him:
Hey, Thanx alot friend. I appreciate the info.
Wow. Dude was really lost. I should have asked for his credit card number to confirm his age.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Something that sucks and something that doesn't
Stupid people suck.
Last night was "Family Night" at The Chicken's school. We missed last year's Family Night so we had no idea what to expect this year. It turns out that what we should have expected was recess with snacks. Maybe there was more to it than that, but the things started before I finished work.
Anyway, we were sitting on the lunchroom style tables noshing on our chips when I couldn't help but overhear a conversation on the other side of the table behind me. An orca fat woman with bad hair would not let her son go outside to the playground with most of the other kids because it might rain. The kid didn't really like this answer, so he argued the point a little. After he gave up and wandered away, the woman turned to the toothless wonder next to her and said "This school needs to start teaching these kids what 'no' means."
Grr. I just about shit.
Fucking assclown. As a parent, it's your fucking job to teach your kids how to behave. Schools are for teaching science and math. If you're not going to teach your child "what no means," don't expect anyone else to do it for you. Oh, and by the way, you need someone to help you choose the right size bra. They're not supposed to be resting on your lap like that, slick.
So yeah. Stupid people suck. However, new plugins do not suck.
I have a new plugin available: Auto Tweet. Auto Tweet provides a mechanism for cross-posting new WordPress entries of your choosing to Twitter when you publish them to your blog. If you're interested, read more and download on the Auto Tweet page.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Don't be fooled
Michael Douglas thinks he can win me over with charity work. Pfft. Like that will happen. I'm wise to him.
I did something really stupid yesterday. My quest for Still Life led me to Usenet, where alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd had what I wanted and a whole lot more. I downloaded something like eleven albums, including a few double albums. I snagged all the studio albums except for Brave New World and A Matter of Life and Death. Sweet. [Full disclosure: I also don't have The X Factor or Virtual XI. But those don't count. If it's not Bruce Dickinson, it's not really Iron Maiden. Except for the early albums with Paul Di'Anno. Ok, what I really mean is the albums with that Blaze guy don't count.]
My music library is set up exactly the way I want it. All these new files needed to be renamed and retagged. I keep a separate library of audio files downsampled to save space on my PDA, so I had to set that up too. All this takes time. I wasn't finished when I shot myself in the foot yesterday.
I keep a separate folder for Usenet downloads. New files stay there until I can sort them or whatever else I need to do. Yesterday I saw something in a multimedia group that caught my eye: screen captures from a zombie movie. Sweet! I loves me some zombie movies. So I downloaded about 40 of them.
Yeah, it turns out they all sucked. Not a one of them was worth even a glance. Delete, delete. While working in my Usenet downloads folder, I hit Ctrl+A to select the whole bunch [Tip for Windows users: Ctrl+A is a nearly universal shortcut for "select all"], then hit Shift+Del to bypass the Recycle Bin and get those turds off my disk that much sooner.
Hey, I thought. What did I do with those other Iron Maiden albums?
NOOOO!
Dammit. I deleted the six CDs I hadn't yet sorted out. I'm retarded.
But everything came together in the end. I fired up my newsreader to see if I could download fresh copies of those CDs. Not only were all the deleted ones still available, but now Brave New World was also available. Do you think maybe if I delete my shit again, the other album I'm missing will appear?
New plugin: Theme Switcher Widget, an addon for using Ryan Boren's Theme Switcher plugin with dynamic sidebars.