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Media Cabinet Contents
June 16, 2005

Here is our media cabinet. My mom built this thing to our specifications for storing all of our DVD movies and such. We were originally thinking of moving our CD collection in here, too, but there just isn’t enough room.

In the left-side door are all of “Abby’s DVDs”, the Disney ones and the Muppet ones. There are also a few of the Miyazaki movies that have migrated to that side of the cabinet. Most of our other movies are too violent, obscene, or lewd for Abby to watch, which is why we’ve separated them.

There is a set of DVDs on teh topmost shelf that we’re going to sell at some point. Maybe on eBay. They’re great movies like Dude, Where’s My Car? and Dick. They’ve gotta go.

I have a database of DVDs around somewhere, although I’m sure it’s not complete since we’ve added quite a few since the time I scanned everything with the CueCat. Maybe I’ll get back to that to keep it up-to-date. There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 to 300 movies in there, and it would be difficult to sort out which ones I had already scanned and not.

The complete list from the last time I scanned (a couple years ago?) follows. Seen any of these?

WordPress 1.6 Feature Updates
June 16, 2005

I caught the post by Ryan via the WordPress Dashboard (I suppose that if I was still hooked into the WP mailing lists I would already have known about this) about SVN commits for version 1.6. I should de-geekify: The developers of WordPress have submitted some changes to the WordPress code repository for the next version of WordPress.

I want to make clear right here two very important things:

First - You should not use this code. It is not finished, and it probably doesn’t work. It will certainly make going back to version 1.5 impossible, and break your web site. Stay away.

If anything, you should use this review as an excuse not to try installing 1.6. Look at the pretty pictures, read the details, comment on the features, and wait.

Second - The features described here do not constitute final features in their full functionality. New features may be added. Features I describe may be removed before final release. Then again, you may get exactly what you see.

A couple of less important things to note: I did not fully test any of this. What you are about to read is the result of about 30 minutes of tinkering and reviewing code differences. You should probably look at the 1.6 Features on Codex for more information about what’s going on. Considering the scale of proposed changes, I don’t expect this version number to be the version number on the release, but that’s conjecture, as is most of what I write here, including this.

Now, on to the good stuff.

Escribir en Español
June 15, 2005

He estado mirando algunos de los sitios de la estadística del blog, y he notado una tendencia impar. Le garantizo que si escribiera la mitad de mis postes en español, entonces cuadruplicaría mi número de visitantes por día.

Se parece haber muchos de lectores españoles y no también de muchos blogs españoles.

My Battle with Impotence
June 15, 2005

Before you go thinking this is a case of TMI (Too Much Information), consider that I’m not talking about me, but about a D&D spell that has been accredited to me in a net book.

Yes, there is a book on the web called the AD&D Book of Sex, and in it there is a spell called Impotence. If you look at the “Thanks” section at the bottom of the page, you’ll find someone named “Owen Winkler” is thanked for his help on the Impotence spell. The thing is, I don’t remember having anything to do with it.