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Over at Gizmodo I read about the Anima Causa Feel Seating System. It consists of 120 balls wrapped in elastic fabric. You can rearrange it easily to any kind of structure – a chair, a bench, a sofa, etc, as you can see from the photo below.

(pic is from Gizmodo)

Doesn’t this remind you of a giant caterpillar? The black thingys look like little caterpillar legs. That could start moving once you sit or lie on it. In the bottom left photo, it looks like the person is being swallowed up. (If you look at the animation of the product website – it shows a person being completely covered, with only her feet sticking out – it looks hilarious.) Also, it looks like it’d be lumpy and not very comfortable.

After reading a whole bunch of instructions and fiddling with settings I don’t completely understand, I have finally gotten a Subversion repository working. I also set up public browsing interface using WebSVN.

It’s awesome. I set it up to track the changes I made to my LiveJournal style. Since several people use it I wanted to save the old revisions in case I make a change that breaks someone else’s code. Right now I know how to update and commit changes, still struggling on the branching and merging concepts. TortoiseSVN makes it super easy to do all of it.

The pMachine team has released four video tutorials for ExpressionEngine. They outline how to install EE, and how basic things like weblogs, templates, and custom fields work.

I’ve watched two of the videos so far and they were OK. The beginning animation is spiffy. I think that the Overview is the best place to start learning about EE though. And then the video tutorials and the Quick Start Tutorial.

After watching Dawson’s Creek, I’ve now been watching clips from Whose Line is it Anyway? on YouTube. That was one hilarious show.

I’ve been spending this Monday evening watching fan videos for Dawson’s Creek on YouTube. If you do a search for Dawson’s Creek on the site, you’ll find a lot. I love them, especially the Pacey and Joey ones! (sniffles)

Right now I’m watching clips from The Kids of Dawson’s Creek by E! True Hollywood Story. They focused on the main 4 actors (James Van der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams). I didn’t like how they referred to Pacey as being Dawson’s sidekick. He was definitely more than that!

Years after this show has been finished, I’m still a HUGE fan.

• Displacement:: Knees
• Grease monkey:: Stupid Gmail keeps crashing my browser
• Vacancy:: Expense
• Conquer:: Divide and..
• Payroll:: Deductions
• Personal:: Portion
• Housewife:: Desperate
• Lateral:: Damage
• Tissue:: Muscle
• Multiplication:: Tables

(from Unconscious Mutterings)

Because I’ve seen this elsewhere today, here’s my Blogger Code 2.0:

B9 D+ T+ K S+ F- I- O X—E+ L C Y4 R- W- P—M1 N- H

Here’s the original Blogger Code I did a long time ago.

I recently enabled entry views tracking on this weblog. There wasn’t any way to see the most viewed entries, so I wrote an extension to show them in the control panel.

Here’s a screenshot of what I came up with:

The thing is far from done yet though.

• It says Top Page Views instead of Top Entry Views. I just realized this after I uploaded the screenshot.
• Have to get permission if I want to release it since the extension uses some of the EE core code.
• Code is not commented.

Also, it’s not as useful as I hoped it would be. I’m 100% sure that the visitors to my top viewed entries aren’t human. For some reason I get a lot of trackback spam attempts and referrer spam to that entry.

Chris Ruzin has set up an archives page using the Yearly Archives plugin and CSS bar graphs. It looks really nifty and now I want to do the same thing on my site.

However I think I’ve already gotten too many options for my weblog archives. If you look at the sidebar, you can browse entries by month, by category, by calendar (which is just another variation of by month), and by keyword. I really ought to try and simplify all that information – I don’t use most of these methods for browsing anyway. I only go through the category archives, and usually if I’m looking for an entry I do a search.

Also, the keywords list isn’t very useful because I’ve become lazy with tagging my entries with keywords.

Presenting another extension for you EE users out there.

This extension allows you to apply a custom text formatting plugin such as Textile or Markdown to comments. Rather than having to wrap your comment text with a plugin tag in your templates, you can just enable the extension and it’ll be applied automatically. The extension should work with any of the plugins in the Text Formatting category in the Plugin Library.

It’s being used on my site right now!

Download Version 1.2.0.

( Changelog )