Today I spent a fair while on a quest to display only page content on a Wordpress site of mine. The situation is that I’m trying to make a very easily updated marketing website for an online-learning project of mine. I like using a proprietary page slider for Wordpress (and other platforms, excluding my Moodle …

I’ve been working on migrating a Moodle 2.4+ installation from a rickety old Ubuntu 10.04 server on Amazon EC2 to a fresh machine as I can’t seem to update the original server to 12.04, which has newer PHP packages I require to run Moodle 2.6+, which I want specifically due to a user stats plugin I want installed.. So …

STP 1.0 So, it’s been years overdue, but meh. I’ve finally open sourced the code for my cruddy little program, Shit Talker Phoenix. The OSX and Windows versions were developed entirely separately, so they’re posted as entirely separate projects. I put the code up on GitHub. Please feel free to fork, modify and send me …

I’ve been working on a somewhat private personal website intended for sharing of family videos. I’ve converted roughly 200hrs of old family video tapes in to media files and am well on my way to having converted the files in to individual scenes/clips. The content is being shared, with family, using an instant of the …

This is the tale of a man who was faced with colossal data loss. As his family photos seem to fade in to the ether and with nothing to lose, he drew a line in the digital sand. He gained a persona that day, he was no longer just “Tony: Loving husband and father”. No no, that fateful day this man also became The …

Recently I decided to try shuffling around my hardware and try a hackintosh setup on my recently acquired i7 box. I last dabbled in this stuff many years back with a P4 box. Suffice to say, my beloved 2008 era Mac Pro is starting to show some age and while I could upgrade it, Apple’s dragged ass in updating the Mac Pro …

I’ve been setting up a number of apt-cacher instances on different networks I run Ubuntu boxes on. This is a well documented process. I’m posting the key steps if only for my own reference later. apt-get install apt-cacher Edit /etc/default/apt-cacher add AUTOSTART=1. Edit /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and make sure …

Yes, I am indeed still alive. I had my site hosted on Amazon Web Services EC2 for a while. Some sort of database problem kept grinding that server to a halt. I’ve since migrated my site elsewhere (not because of that) and sort of patched the issues in the process. I’ve been seriously considering blowing away this …

Since adopting OSX as my typical workstation environment, I’ve often been annoyed by a lack of understanding about how to cleanly call it from the commandline, but not via a terminal. On Linux I’d typically just make a little bash script and fork it out from /etc/rc.local. That’s not really an option on OSX. A lot of …

I’ve long since been missing canine companionship since my legendary pal Blaze’s days became numbered. The last few years have not been particularly accommodating of a battlehound… Finally, however, the time has arrived. Enter Gryphon, the awesome puppy! I got her through a rescue organization (AARCS). She’s a damned …