20 August, 2004

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Since I seem to not even get the (dis)courtesy of an automated email, I think I’ll post my gripe here.

Audlink is a free service that allows one to audio blog, and can be configured to post to one’s actual blog shortly after an audio post with the details.

The problem is, it outputs bad HTML and it isn’t fully compatible with WordPress.

What do I mean?

Simple.
When a post is made, Audlink uses XMLRPC to post to WordPress (the successor to b2, which is one of the options on the menu).
However, all it does is create a body, and puts a link in.
The body looks like:
<A HREF=http://www.audlink.com/mailbox/1361/0405080310.mp3>Audlink Message 0405080310</A>

This is all wrong.
Audlink needs to feed XMLRPC a subject along with its body.
I wager that it would look like this:
title=’Audlink Message 0405080310′
entry=’<a href=”http://www.audlink.com/mailbox/1361/0405080310.mp3″>Audlink Message 0405080310</a>”

This is to fix both the issue it causes with WordPress and its interaction with mod_rewrite: A lack of title often makes WordPress hiccup on an entry.
It also fixes the invalid code, so that I don’t have to run to the library and bloody fix an entry to have valid XHTML!

Ah, well. I’ll switch Audlink to MovableType mode, and touch my xmlrpc.php file this way. I’ll be insulted if it works properly, because I don’t care for MovableType.

Now to go download MySQL and burn that off to a CD, along with the latest versions of Apache and PHP. :)

I did one of these silly little memes running around (linked from a friend’s blojournal. Private entry, so I can’t tell you who it was.), and I got these results.

Don’t slap me. Please. ^.^;
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Even after I gave it proper credit, and stopped bashing it around the head and shoulders at every breath, reading LJ from anywhere as of late has been a miserable experience.

The server is practically not responding to me, and if my comment on lj:kaethiel:’s journal went through, it’s a damned miracle, I’ll tell you.

Want to know what’s funny as hell, though?

The Atom feeds are like lightning here. I am running a portable version of Firefox now on my stick (sits in 8.06 MB of space), with the Sage extension, and have a copy of my old feeds list. The result is, once I can forcibly log in, I can have my cookie, and eat it, too. :) Fortunately, I got it to log in, somehow, so I think my comment on Kae’s blojournal actually went through.

Maybe I’ll get caught up on all of you, after all. Just need to save things, page by page, because Sage only keeps one file at a time. :)

Looks like when my drug test comes back, I’ll be working at my local Albertsons.

Whee, money si good.
Intarwebz at hoem even bettar. :3

But, my WhatPulse ranking has dropped over 100 places since last month. This makes me very unhappy.
So, at home, I still run WhatPulse, in hopes of making this bloody huge pulse when I reconnect. I just have to find things that make me press keys on the keyboard more often. Playing Dreamcast games doesn’t do it: I use a controller that works rather well with Chankast, because it’s easier than the alternative (keyboarding it). Although, I wish I had one of those loopy little Console-to-USB adapters for any of my systems… I wonder where my PSX to USB adapter is. That would work better, really.
Dreamcast has A, B, C, L, R, X, Y, Z, Directional pad, Analog stick, and Start as possible inputs (Some games do not recognize C and Z, but Ikaruga and probably King of Fighters, as well as a small number of other games do);
Praystation has Circle, X, Triangle, Square, L1, L2, R1, R2, Directional pad, Select, and Start on most older controllers. The new ones add the Analog sticks, and the Analog toggle.
My controller has A, B, C, L, R, X, Y, Z, and a directional pad. I got lazy, and mapped C to Start, since the emulator itself doesn’t allow for configuration of C or Z itself (I should note that to them…), so Z sits there, unused. :P

Maybe Super Nintendo emulation… most games work better from Keyboard instead of a controller… :) I could always do with beating Final Fantasy VI again, as well as beating Final Fantasy V and Secret of Evermore.

In fact… I’ll start on Secret of Evermore first, since I have a save file for it, and I’ve already hacked up a few of my own cheats (99 each of the junk you need to do Alchemy, and I’ve already leveled up the spells a bit).

Right now, I’m just cruising on “relax” while I wait for Albertsons to declare that I am clean, and tell me when orientation is.
I just need to cut my hair a little - it is a bit thick for my taste. :)

I think that after I pay my bills here, I’ll be able to send my lj:forsolei: something, depending on how big my check is. I just wish I got it sooner than I will, though… :(
I feel really bad, because I can’t be there for Solei like I want to be, and some of the money Solei spent was on me (Eating a few times, part of my bus ticket home). I wouldn’t really feel right about that.

I also need to send some money back to my contributors, pre-trip, as well. Sure, I’m emptying my pockets before I fill them, but if I forget to write something down, I’m not likely to remember it.

On a tangent here, a police officer just tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Get off the computer.”
I just looked at him like he was an udon noodle. (I can’t believe it. dict.org doesn’t have the definition of udon.) He was someone I knew, though. He was the School Resource Officer at my old middle school here in Tampa. It was rather funny of him to do that, though. I don’t like being spooked. :P

So we talked for a few minutes, mostly about me, and how I’ve been doing. He’s surprised I don’t have some super-geeky tech job somewhere, and I said I don’t have a degree, so I don’t have access to these super-geeky tech jobs. :P
After suggestions from him and his partner to go back to school, a couple of chuckles, and stuff… he went his way, and I come back to finish posting. :)

Ah, well. Back to the Internet.