Electric Mind Control Blog

Today I released the first public release of a trivial little plugin for wordpress that I wrote.

It simply picks a random quote from a unix fortune cookie file, and inserts it into your wordpress template.

I wrote it when I created this blog, to enable that random tagline you see in the top-left, under the blog title.

For More Information, visit the GoodFortune Home Page

Or just download the GoodFortune Plugin now.

I was updating a site that was built using prototypejs, and needed an image carousel element.  I ran across the prototype-ui project, which has just the right kind of code.  While the documentation seems pretty good, there was no obvious (to me) “bare-bones” demo that I could peek at to see how to set up a basic carousel.  So, I made one, and put it up here: Prototype-UI Carousel Bare Bones Demo/Tutorial

This little project prompted the creation of this blog.

After I suggested to some folks on the nyphp “talk” list that compiling your own daemons from scratch isn’t painful so long as you maintain some scripts to do it for you, Dan Horning called my bluff.

So instead of just dumping some stuff on a server, I went all out and created a blog (since I have some other code I want to publish sooner or later, anyway).

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