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Link a Category to an External URL in Wordpress

Stephen — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:18:07 +0000

What I wanted was have a category link on my site open up an external site in a new tab. A simple task in something like Joomla. But you can’t configure this in Wordpress! It baffles me why such a basic feature is not standard. However, here’s my solution. First, I tried a lot of redirection [...]

Convert MP3 to KMP

Stephen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:20:03 +0000

A great deal was advertised on TV in Seoul recently where you could get a new LG Cyon mobile phone—the strangely named Viewty, model KH2100, for only 26,000 won. It included a charger in the deal and since we needed an extra one of those, we bought the phone. It’s got all the stuff you’d expect [...]

We’re Busted, Man!

Stephen — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:32:51 +0000

Here’s a fun picture I came across years ago but never got around to posting it anywhere. But I decided to add it here with a little review of a game I came across the other night called de_marijuan_bust. It’s only a small map consisting of a central building, where the dope heads start out, and [...]

Screenshots

Stephen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:32:45 +0000

See screenshots from Half Life and Counter Strike here.

Putting DIVs Side by Side

Stephen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:13:57 +0000

It can be very frustrating working with divs, when trying to modify an existing design. I had a situation where I wanted to modify a design so that the sidebar was not fixed with “relative: absolute” positioning. Things weren’t wrapping how I wanted because of it, plus the sidebar was hiding the footer. I needed the [...]

Jailbreak iPod Touch 1.1.4 and Add an English-Korean Dictionary

Stephen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:14:13 +0000

I’ve noted before my disdain for Apple and the company’s culture of arrogance. And I’ve mentioned my annoyance at certain decisions made regarding the iPod Touch. What further annoys me about this product is that Apple expects you to pay extra to have some more very basic applications added to it. The way around that [...]

Fixing the Slow Opening of Office 2003 Documents and Worksheets

Stephen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:50:16 +0000

The time it was taking Office 2003 documents and spreadsheets to open on my wife’s PC was a joke. It was a real pain without explanation. And I still don’t know why it happened. However, I did find out how to fix it, not before wasting more of my life because of Windows. I will [...]

AWP Sniper Heaven

Stephen — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:30:16 +0000

Awp_india is a map I’ve always enjoyed, in all of its incarnations, from back in the CS 1.6 days up to now. The great thing about it for me is how everyone is made equal in terms of terrain and weapons. All you get is the AWP sniper rifle and a knife. The knife usually [...]

WAMP: MySQL Import Problems & Solutions

Stephen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:37:55 +0000

I struck 2 errors when trying to import database backup files into newly created SQL databases for my WAMP. This is how I fixed them. One error was pretty straight forward, saying something like an error occurred (gee, thanks, that really pointed me in the right direction). I discovered that was because the file was too [...]

Overcoming How Apple Sucks

Stephen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:16:42 +0000

After my wife purchased an iPod Touch, she was disappointed to find how restrictive it’s video formats were. It annoyed me, too. But Apple’s arrogant and moronic policy on this has annoyed a lot of people. It really is pathetic. I’ve never had a smooth relationship with Apple, for one reason or another, going way back. [...]

Adding a Wireless Router to a Wired Router

Stephen — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:34:30 +0000

First, many will advise to forget all about adding a wireless router to a wired router and simply buy a wireless router to handle all of your networking needs. They’ll say don’t complicate things with two routers. They mention that speed might be an issue (yeah, perhaps in nano seconds). Well, each to his own. I [...]

Insert HTML Code Into HTML, PHP or SHTML Files

Stephen — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:27:47 +0000

The scenario is that I wanted to insert HTML code into HTML, PHP or SHTML files to create the “tab” menu bar seen at the top of the page. For this, the code had to go after the <body> tag in each content management system file that handled the page structure. To include the HTML code [...]

Zoho A No Go! Well, Not For A While Anyway . . .

Stephen — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:30:05 +0000

I signed up for Zoho this week with great enthusiasm after seeing what it offered, but that enthusiasm, and trust along with it, was soon shattered. Zoho is a free online suite of various tools, some much like those Google offers—the excellent Google Docs, for example. But Zoho has so much more. I was very impressed [...]

Dominating!

Stephen — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:04:25 +0000

(Select for a larger size) I was dominating! A rare moment for me, in the world of Counter Strike, so I just had to post it. On the left you can see my tally: 1 wounded, almost killed, and 3 killed! Sadly, just as I’d taken out my last victim, someone got me with a head [...]

Hot Babe Killers

Stephen — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:21:09 +0000

Occasionally when I visit Counter Strike zombie sites, some players are modified to be girls in bikinis or French maid outfits, like the one below. So I thought I’d take a screenshot. There isn’t much more sexier than a French maid with a grenade on her hip. See the Counter Strike gallery.

Compassionate Killing: Korea’s Bulguksa on Counter Strike

Stephen — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:59:09 +0000

As soon as I saw on the list of servers that one of them was using a map called de_bulguksa, I knew it had to be some kind of Korean temple design. In Korean, “sa” means temple and bulguk would be the name of the temple, so in English it simply translates as Bulguk Temple. [...]

Web Safe Colour Standards

Stephen — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:24:15 +0000

By Dyann K. Schmidel, and repeated here just for fun and because it’s pretty . . .

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midnightblue
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navy
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darkblue
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blue
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[...]

Rats in a Girls Room

Stephen — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:18:49 +0000

Maybe there’s a little too much pink. But you know, that helps you spot the enemy easier because they stand out more. This map, called de_dolls, is based on the early Half-Life map called Rats. The early version was set in a kitchen and featured rat holes and tunnels and even a rat trap. A rat trap [...]

Dust2 Dusted Off

Stephen — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:16:30 +0000

Probably the most popular or most played CS Source map of all time is de_dust2. Some servers, in fact, are devoted to it, offering nothing else. That doesn’t seem to deter players, who return again and again to enjoy shooting it out in familiar terrain. It just seems to have the right balance of all the [...]

OSX & Ubuntu Linux on an iBook G4

Stephen — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:17:18 +0000

My iBook G4 wasn’t being used much so I decided to install Ubuntu Feisty on it. Here’s how it was done, and I give you the warts and all procedure, as it happened, in the hands of an average tinkerer. First things first, back up all critical files and extra applications on the iBook to another [...]