Archive for October, 2007

Abbey Hill Park HOA Fall Festival 2K7

Posted: 28th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Fun and Funny, General

Yesterday we took the kids across the street to the Abbey Hill park. It is a nice little park with a nice play area and gazebo with park benches, all paid for by the members of the Abbey Hill Park HOA. In an effort to get people out of their houses, and more friendly with [...]

Taylor’s 8th Birthday

Posted: 28th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Fun and Funny, General

Last week we also celebrated Taylor’s 8th birthday down here in the neighborhood park. It was a beautiful day, but SUPER WINDY!! We had to tape everything down with 6-pounds of tape! Grandma and Grandpa showed up, as well as my folks and siblings. Niece Laura made it too. She’s getting too old, way too [...]

Halloween Party 2K7-1

Posted: 28th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Fun and Funny

Last weekend Maryanne and I went to a little Halloween party at a friend’s house. Plenty of alcohol on the table, and music on the Ipod, we had a pretty good time. Nevermind the … “things” hanging from the ceiling fan.

Reasons for Excitement

Posted: 19th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Gaming, White and Nerdy
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Two reasons for my excitement this morning, and I shall sum them up promptly: Lord of the Rings Online content update, and Street Fighter IV. That’s right, you heard it. Street Fighter IV! I LOVED the old Street Fighter games. I grew up playing those in the arcades all day long, and then on my [...]

Ok, jQuery Is Pimp

Posted: 18th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Development, Javascript
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Alright, I’m with Ben Nadel on this one… jQuery is PIMP!! I started playing with it, and although I have barely scratched the surface I can tell that this thing is really powerful. As an example let us say that I have a form with a bunch of text boxes that I want to clear. [...]

Yahoo! Widget Converter Issue

Posted: 16th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Development

I ran across an interesting problem today. At work I wrote a Yahoo! Widget that monitors our web servers’ response time and memory consumption. I had made a few updates and enhancements to it and was ready to release it to the engineers here that use it. To do this you use the Yahoo! Widget [...]

My First Plugin

Posted: 16th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Development, PHP
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have started learning how to write WordPress plugins. My first plugin is one that removes the word “Private: ” from the beginning of blog and page titles (when they are saved with a status of private). The way this works is by creating a function that takes one argument. I [...]

Anewen Reaches 40!

Posted: 15th October 2007 by Adam Presley in Gaming, White and Nerdy

Yay! My main character in Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar just reached level 40! Woo hoo! Soon I shall be a level 50 champion renown throughout Middle Earth! :p