My Blog Comment Autofill Greasemonkey script is back. (direct greasemonkey link)
In its first incarnation, you’d be on Digg, reddit, etc and the script would actually fill in your blog’s URL into the submission field!
Now, I check the meta generator tag, i.e. if you view source on this page you’ll see something like this in the […]
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Blog Comment Autofill Is Back (Greasemonkey Script)
Published January 31st, 2008 in Automation, Fun, Getting Things Done, Making Money Online, Tools of the Trade, Web Hacks and WordPress. 3 CommentsHow to Upgrade WordPress across Multiple Blogs
Published January 4th, 2008 in Automation, Fun, Making Money Online, Tools of the Trade, Web 2.0, Web Apps, Web Hacks, WordPress and Wordpress Plugins. 6 CommentsFirst off, I keep my main WordPress installation in Subversion.
This does have the added drawback that all of my WP blogs will be out of date until I update my main WP Subversion trunk and svn up on the server(s). At the same time, updating X number of WordPress blogs by hand would be […]
HOW TO: Encrypt Virtual Disks on External Drives
Published January 3rd, 2008 in Fun and Tools of the Trade. 0 CommentsLet’s say you’ve pulled down a copy of your application’s production database, or simply want to encrypt some personal files.
First, download TrueCrypt. PGPDisk should work similarly.
You’ve got a big fat 400+ GB external hard-drive that you can load up with both unencrypted data (mp3s, etc) as well as your sensitive, encrypted data.
First, make sure […]
13-Line Shell Script Votes for Mr. Splashy Pants 100s of Times
Published November 28th, 2007 in Automation, Fun and Web Hacks. 5 CommentsSorry, Greenpeace, but apparently you may not have gotten the memo.
Apparently the weblog.greenpeace.org site is written in Rails?!? (Via curl: “Server: Mongrel 1.1″) Surely the method described below does not _actually_ submit 100s of counted votes!?!
Using my super 3r33t h@x0r skills, I spent 2 minutes writing a shell script that votes for our beloved […]
Poll Code Writers Are Lazy and Stupid
Published October 15th, 2007 in Automation, Fun and Web Apps. 7 Commentsupdate: the title was just in jest so please don’t get too offended anyone =) upon thinking about this problem a little more, the solutions are all rather similar to the solutions for blog comment / social media spam. if you want to be 100% sure a human is voting, then you have […]
The Slope of a Thread Going Nowhere Fast
Published August 23rd, 2007 in Fun and YCombinator News. 0 CommentsScreenshot of a thread going nowhere fast over at Hacker News:
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Just a little fun with SnapNDrag and Seashore!
Now this is how to market Linux!
Credit: unknown. Appears to be taken at some sort of SUSE Linux event.
Just a fun little list I worked up from some of my favorite movies. Can you guess the movie quotes from the code? Add your own in the comments, or translate these (from Ruby) into your favorite language and I’ll link to your post here.
Movie #1:
it = It.new
it.puts(:the_lotion, it.skin)
it.basket
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