mikerowecode

This is probably not news to anyone else, but the ever-increasing world of blog “planets” (Planet Linux Australia, Kernel Planet, Debian Planet) often provide an OPML file containing all their subscriptions, ready for importing into your favourite aggregator (like NetNewsWire). Cool.

But how do I stay up to date when new feeds are added?

Last night, I set up WordPress for a friend. They claim on the website it takes less than five minutes. And they were right! In fact, I also added a domain to my DNS, configured an apache vhost and set up an email forwarder in the same time. :-O

From David A. Wheeler, in an article about the new US passports with “remote” scanning ability:

This is an area where the convenience of wireless is far outweighed by the disadvantages of getting murdered.

Er, yes. I can see how being murdered would be a down side.

I just sent James the following patch to his new revamped drupal image module. It allows an admin to configure the title of the image modules “latest” and “random” image blocks.

Index: sandbox/walkah/image/image.module
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/drupal-contrib/contributions/sandbox/walkah/image/image.module,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 image.module
--- sandbox/walkah/image/image.module   3 Mar 2005 15:44:48 -0000       1.16
+++ sandbox/walkah/image/image.module   4 Mar 2005 11:38:37 -0000
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@
   $size_group .= form_checkbox(t('Allow users to view original image'), 
                           'image_view_original', 1, variable_get('image_view_original', 0));
   $output.= form_group(t('Image sizes'), $size_group);

+  // block titles
+  $titles .= form_textfield(t('Latest Image block title'), 
                   'image_block_title_latest', 
                   variable_get('image_block_title_latest', 'Latest image'), 30, 255);
+  $titles .= form_textfield(t('Random Image block title'), 
                   'image_block_title_random', 
                   variable_get('image_block_title_random', 
                   'Random image'), 30, 255);
+  $output.= form_group(t('Block Titles'), $titles);
+
   return $output;
 }

@@ -212,12 +217,12 @@
       switch($delta) {
         case 0:
           $images = image_get_latest();
-          $block['subject'] = t('Latest image');
+          $block['subject'] = variable_get('image_block_title_latest', 'Latest image');
           $block['content'] = l(image_display($images[0], 'thumbnail'), 'node/'.$images[0]->nid);
           break;
         case 1:
           $images = image_get_random();
-          $block['subject'] = t('Random image');
+          $block['subject'] = variable_get('image_block_title_random', 
                                          'Random image');
           $block['content'] = l(image_display($images[0], 'thumbnail'),
                                          'node/'.$images[0]->nid);
           break;
       }