http://geekgrl.net home of hannah gray, bookworm, geek, cat-lover Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:47:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came home to California to find eight barrels of wine in the garage. My folks give me the stink eye every time I so much as glance at the stash, and I think this may explain why my mother has switched to buying me only the half-size little red ... http://geekgrl.net/2008/06/14/back-in-california/ Meet 'Stumpy' -- the resident lizard. He lives somewhere around the condo and I routinely see him chillin' out on my way to/from the car. http://geekgrl.net/2007/09/18/a-new-neighbor/ I've been putting off writing this entry for quite a while now, but, I think the time has come. In early July, Mango was hit and killed by a car in front of Rust Op Twist. It was the second time my mother has been the first to ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/09/17/introductions-farewells/ Patrick (a family friend) and his buddy Kennith came to spend a week on island. Below are a sampling of pics. We rented a bobcat to do some stump removals. Patrick knows how to operate heavy equipment, so we thought we would take advantage... I had my fun ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/08/04/visitors/ Nap Time Mango is underneath there somewhere They both like exploring the Gallery. Believe it or not, they're sleeping. http://geekgrl.net/2007/03/31/settling-in/ I just got a request recently to add some features to a PostNuke module I developed for a client about 2 years ago -- my first PHP project ever... I was kindof dreading the whole process. But low and behold... I'm finding things like: // HLG - REMOVING UNNECC FUNCTIONS // ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/01/19/wow-i-did-that/ Brief Introduction: iTunes 7's Cover Flow makes low resolution, older album cover art stick out like a sore thumb. iTunes won't search for high res artwork if the track already has artwork. SO... One needs to be able to sort out the albums with low res art and ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/01/07/find-low-resolution-album-art-itunes-applescript-release/ My photo-organization strategy works something like this: Drag off stick, plunk in /photos/year-month_activity -- viola. At this point I have about 6,000 pics. about 60% of those are duplicates, evidence of my "Well if I take 6 pics of <blah> one of 'em has gotta turn out" ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/01/06/media-organization-nightmares/ WordPress 2.0 essentially marked the final leap of the WP team in joining the Web 2.0 bandwagon... We have a big friendly typeset, drag-and-drop widgets, AJAXified posting and moderating tools. And with 2.1, we will be getting a JavaScript framework. This doesn't mean much to the average WP ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/01/04/jquery-vs-prototype-wordpress-gone-astray/ This plugin has IE 7 issues - I'm insanely busy right now but I'll fix and update the plugin ASAP. Until then, consider yourself warned :) What It Does: Profile Pics is a WordPress plugin which adds a photo upload utility to the user profile editing pane, and 4 template tags ... http://geekgrl.net/2007/01/02/profile-pics-plugin-release/