Archive for July, 2008

Here's a little line of javascript that will work in Firefox to reveal the * characters in an auto populated password field. Just paste the following code into your browser address bar whenever you see an asterisked form field and press enter..

Useful if if you want to access your sisters email account you forget a password that gets auto filled.

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I've been too lazy to transfer my holiday photos from my camera since I cam back (because then everyone will crowd around my computer and ooh and ahh at every.single.picture - even the ones of a thumb obscuring the lens) instead though, I have bitten the bullet and finally got around to creating some Mysql tables for the remote script that does the fetching of the last blog post for commentluv plugin users.

What does this mean? ..
it means that I can create a site for people to register their blog url and with that :

• set a default cache timeout for speedier processing of their comments on blogs that use the plugin.
• define a default RSS feed url to be used for their domain
  (will also make retrieving a little quicker)
• define a default link and anchor text to be used
  (useful for pointing to a particular post in the past on comments you make on commentluv sites or if your feed has an error)
• choose to use default link and anchor text instead of your feeds last entry
  (useful for when you go on a comment campaign)
• make your last blog post links open in a new window
  (on sites you comment on)

Other things I will be able to do with the upcoming commentluv site now I'm using a database to store data..

• Show you the last 10 blogs with commentluv that you commented on
• Show you the last 10 comments with a last blog post made on your blog
• Show the top 10 blogs that comment on your blog
• Show the top 10 blogs that you comment on (that have commentluv)
• Show which blogs have commented on you that you haven't commented on
  (thanks to Bobby Revellian who requested something to keep a track of which blogs he has commented on and which blogs he needs to comment on. I know it was literally half a year ago bobby but it's taken me until now to learn enough stuff to make it possible!)
• probably a lot more...:-)

If there's more things you'd like to be able to do with commentluv on your blog or features you'd like to see for a commentluv site please leave a comment here and let me know... (btw.. I am using a new version of commentluv on this site that uses the new remote script and database, if you get any issues with comments going funny please let me know on the contact page)

..oh, one more thing... ajax commentluv is a little more improved, it can now work with almost any blog that allows you to edit the header of your theme! .. it's still a little way off from a release but it seems to be working well ... stay tuned!

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Thanks to my new server provider MaxtorHost FiddyP blog is now much faster and secure. The commentluv script is also more secure and faster.

My previous server was a bit pants, the plesk dashboard was super slow, ftp was unreliable and support was terse and "couldn'tgiveatoss". I managed to overcome the ftp problems by telnet'ing to the server and gzipping the httpdocs folder and database (old phpmyadmin wouldn't download an export file grrr). The kind support at Maxtor Host was able to restore my database and all root files and folders within minutes of me asking in a support ticket.

Now I don't have to worry about losing any posts since before I went on holiday, I can get on with my master plan for the new CommentLuv site and perhaps get the AJAX version sorted so it can be easily installable and should be compatible with typepad blogs too.

I'm kinda busy with a lot of stuff I have to catch up on but I'll get there eventually! Thanks to all those that wished me happy travelling. It was an awesome holiday which I'll write about soon enough...

hazaa for Maxtor Host who can provide a managed semi-dedicated server for hundreds of dollars less than the crappy streamline.net. (their support roks too)

[edit]I signed up to their affiliate program after Jon's comment below and changed the links to aff ones in the post

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..or should that be, HURRY! I'm going on holiday! lol, finally after working many long hours and days and weeks and (gosh!) even years, I am finally going to go on holiday with my sweet miss lovely. A 7 day cruise around the Med' with nothing but sun, sea and .. ahem, well, you know

I leave on Saturday and wont be back until the next Sunday so don't be scared if you don't see me lurking around your blogs and sites for a while, I know I don't get much chance to respond to comments any way but next week will be even worse.

The big news will be that I wont be taking any phones or laptops and my home PC('s) will be SWITCHED OFF hahahaha! I'm scared they wont switch back on again, they've only been off a few times and that was to replace ageing hardware.... oo-er, how exciting. I might join the luddites (not!)

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I have some exciting plans for a commentluv site where you'll be able to do much more with your commentluv plugin such as define a default post for your site url so it shows that instead of your latest post when you comment on a CL site or choose a cache time for your last post or see a list of the last 10 blogs you commented on etc etc.

This will be possible when I've made the site and learned all thats needed to play with a database, I'm on holiday next week so the coding will probably have to wait until I come back so to keep you busy, I encourage you to register your commentluv enabled blog or site at the Top CommentLuv Sites, you'll get some small exposure and get a pretty little badge for your blog that shows your rank based on your unique hits and you get the chance for your glorious 468x80 banner to be seen by the 10's (at least!) of people that visit the directory.

Seriously though, it is well known that CommentLuv has increased the quantity of comments made on many (if not all) of the blogs that use it so having a directory of sites that people know link back to them if they comment could have a positive effect for bringing new visitors and commentators to your site.

The template for the site is being developed but all the gubbins are there and it's working fine already, only the asthetics need to be taken care of so there's no time to lose! get yourself registered !

Please note that only CommentLuv enabled sites will be allowed to remain in the directory so please make sure you have it installed and working before you register or I'll send some poodles round to gnaw at your toes

Simply visit Top CommentLuv Sites and register your site for immediate commentluv gratification

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I used a friends computer the other day and they were really surprised when I used the google search box on Firefox to do a quick sum.

he was like, "woah that's amazing"

I was like, "dude, wtf?"

• He's the type of guy that minimizes all the open windows one by one only to open a browser from it's desktop icon,
• he always goes to google and types in the url to the search box and then goes and clicks the top adsense ad to get there,
• he thinks those annoying mid page ads that look like a warning dialogue box are real (every time he sees them)
• he thinks that when I went into his BIOS that I hacked into his computer via a back door, he still tells his friends about it
• he thinks he can clear up some space in his pc by deleting 150kb .dll files
• he takes literally 100 seconds to type "yes" on MSN
• he's still trying to capture something good on camera so he can make "millions" on YouTube (he swears he read a story that YouTube pays for each play no matter what I say or show him)

it'd be funny if it wasn't true.

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