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A new canvas demo

crccheck — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:25:43 +0000

I finally got around to updating my canvas / sql visualization code. Interacting with the map is now much easier.

And I’ve posted a live demo of it here: http://crccheck.com/demo02

It’s not as refined as google maps, but it’s still pretty fancy. Navigation is done in the minimap, and you can draw on the large map with your mouse pointer.

This time, I made it work in FireFox and Chrome/Safari

Blast from the Past [2000] my !hme script

crccheck — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:03:10 +0000

I completely forgot about this mIRC script I made back in 2000, but apparently I was ahead of my time. I wrote a crowdsourcing script before there was crowdsourcing. The script was very simple, query it with !hme and the script replies with how many episodes it thinks are in the show. To contribute, anyone could say !hme.add . I did have a blacklist of people who couldn’t add, but I don’t think I ever had to use it. You didn’t care about the accuracy of the name of the shows, because the script searched the best fit, and if there were duplicate variations (Evangelion vs Neon Genesis Evangelion), it didn’t matter. I just stored extra information. The last time the script was used… 2002… it had 500 entries.

Jamba Juice Secret Menu

crccheck — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:55:27 +0000

Tried

White Gummy – delicious+
Red Gummy – delicious
Strawberry Shortcake – pretty good

Want to Try

Pink Starburst
Orchard Oasis
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Skittles
Raspberry Dreamin’
Pineapple Dreamin’
Apple Pie

Not sure if my Jamba Juice knows about

Fruity Pebbles
Push Pop
Bluetopia
Sourpatch Kid
Now and Later
chocolate gummy bear
Blue Gummy Bear

Using XPath to find email address links

crccheck — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:46:55 +0000

I wanted to write a Greasemonkey script to modify all mailto: links on a page, but to do that, I have to find them first.

Here’s my first attempt:

//a[@href]/text()[contains(.,"@")]

It’s pretty bad. I wanted to find links starting with “mailto:” but couldn’t figure out how to operate on the href attribute.

second attempt:

//a/@href[contains(.,"mailto:")]/..

Here you can see that I managed to operate on the href attribute, and then back back up to the a node. I learned how to select the attribute, instead of using the attribute to select the node.

third attempt:

//a[contains(@href,"mailto:")]

Simplified even further!

fourth attempt:

//a[starts-with(@href,"mailto:")]

I knew there was a starts with function… I just had to look it up.

Chassis blowholes are good for other things

crccheck — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:45:40 +0000

At first, I thought the little shroud on the Antec P182 (also on the P180) was a little annoying because it broke up the horizontal space that I could otherwise use for piling up misc crap. Lately, I’ve been putting my external hard drives on top of the shroud. The airflow helps cool them down. My 7200 rpm 2.5″ drive in the Macally PHR-250CC (an excellent enclosure) gets really hot, and this will definately help.