WordPress jQuery Table of Contents plugin
I’m proud to announce my first WordPress plugin, “jQuery Table of Contents,” which inserts the lovely little table of contents you see on many of the pages of my website. It uses jQuery to inspect the content of your post or page and generate table of contents links based on the header tags. It’s easy, [...]
Trying out Twitter
Looking for something interesting to add to my online presence, I decided to try out Twitter. I’m not really sure why I haven’t tried it out until now. Apparently, fewer than 40% of people stay on Twitter after they start using it – a phenomenon so prevalent that it even has a name: “Twitter Quitter.” [...]
Simple Table Of Contents in JQuery
I developed a handy Table of Contents script using JQuery for another project, now abandoned, and I decided to implement it on this website (which uses WordPress). This assumes that you have JQuery already loaded and are using WordPress 2.9 or newer.
Fixing volume control on Inspiron 9400 / E1705 in Ubuntu Karmic
So there was one other problem aside from the nearly flawless install of Ubuntu Karmic I did a few days ago. Apparently the Dell Inspiron 9400 (also known as the E1705, if you bought it through the Dell Home store instead of Dell Small Business like I did) has the STAC9200 audio chipset, and ALSA [...]
Fixing segmentation fault in apt upgrade
I was having some problems getting aptitude to install new packages. It might have been caused by a crash on my netbook while installing packages, but in any case, nothing was working. The output looked like this, over and over again for about two dozen packages. ted@mini:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo dpkg –configure –pending Setting up synaptic (0.62.5ubuntu3) [...]
Emacs goodness
A couple of nifty things I learned about the new Emacs 23 in the last few days: Because the new Emacs has XFT rendering for fonts, it really does look beautiful. One thing I didn’t like was changing my font size by starting Emacs, hating the current font size, closing Emacs, changing ~/.Xdefaults, starting Emacs [...]
Yahoo called
Apparently while I was out on an errand during our move today, Yahoo called about my blog. This is either a sign that I’ve caught someone’s attention, or much more likely, that Yahoo’s automated phone number scraping has gotten better.
I’m loving Dial2Do
So with my newly acquired cell phone, I’m finding that there are all sorts of interesting applications that I wouldn’t have been interested in before, but am now. I had heard of Jott, a service which transcribes spoken words into text and shuttles it off to different services, but apparently they went for-pay in February. [...]
Installing BackupPC on OpenWRT
I wanted to have a backup server for my church that would automatically take backups when computers came on to our new wireless network. BackupPC immediately sprang to mind, but it only runs on Linux. How could I get a Linux server into the church in a very low cost way? Answer: An Asus wireless [...]
The Statistics of Chutes and Ladders
Seeing this node on Chutes and Ladders over at PerlMonks, I thought it would be interesting to throw my hat into the ring. Chutes and Ladders can be represented as a time-homogenous Markov chain with 100 possible states. Each state transition can be represented in a matrix (size 100×100) of transition probabilities T, where T_ij [...]