Well, as I explained on my other blog, I’ve been neglecting my blogging. I’ve ignored my blogging so much, in fact, that I didn’t even notice my 101 in 1001 list expired on February 11th – Heck, I thought it might have been the 19th, that’s how long it’s been since I’ve even looked at this site. Continue reading ‘I didn't even notice…’
I have cleaned up the posts on my site – it has gone from 375 public posts to 29. There are a couple reasons for this cleanup – 1, I noted that there was some fairly strong language in most of my “angry teen years” posts from High School and shortly beyond, and I wanted this to become a more family-friendly blog. 2, it was a necessary step for me to realize my vision for this blog, which does not involve complaining about school or jobs which I do not have any more, or be riddled with lame memes.
I also plan to move the blog to a different address, and this will cut down the work – don’t worry, when I do change addresses, I’ll make sure the current blog.mattfast1.com address redirects to the new one.
In addition to this blog being automatically updated from the Wordpress Subversion Repository on a nightly basis, installing new features almost as fast as the Wordpress team adds them, I have changed the \’default\’ avatar that appears when a comment is made from someone who doesn\’t have their email address tied to a Gravatar account. It used to be the \’mystery man\’ default avatar, that everyone\’s probably used to seeing on blogs that have Gravatar enabled.
Now, I\’ve changed that \’mystery man\’ to Wavatar, which will automatically generate an avatar for you, based on your email address. As an added bonus, any other Wavatar-enabled sites will give you the same avatar!
Recently, the T9 dictionary on my phone (which is a LG LX550, also called the LG Fusic) has become flooded with bad entries, coming from turning off the dictionary and forgetting to turn it back on or other PEBCAK errors on my part (entries such as Hmy, Gdt, and other gems are among the offenders). So, since I had problems finding out how to do it myself, I figured I would share how I reset my dictionary. Continue reading ‘Quest to reset T9 Dictionary [ LG Fusic (LX-550) ]‘
I have created more security measures for my domains. Now, any access to mattfast1.com, mattvandusen.com or vandusens.us (and their subdomains) by those in certain troublemaking countries will be denied. While in the interest of security I\’m not going to reveal my exact methodology for these filters, let\’s just say it\’ll take a bit of effort for them to break through. Continue reading ‘New Security Measures’
Welcome to the new release of Matt, which includes several code enhancements including fewer memory leaks, a cleaner environment, and a less restrictive parent set. Several key components have been rewritten from the ground up, and new features have been added, including the ability to process the A_COHOL environment variable without causing an illegal error. We promise this new version is faster and more productive than older versions, and urge you to upgrade immediately.
[Updated 2009-02-26]
I have finally received the necessary supplies to connect my new weather station to the internet at large. Currently, I have the thing in two different places, each with their own datasets. Continue reading ‘Weather Station – Part Duex!’
I just bought myself the Oregon Scientific WMR-968 weather station (and no, I didn\’t pay the list price of $299.99 – Google it, there are much lower prices out there!), and I have to say, it\’s a fairly nice piece of equipment. The unit comes with 4 sensors – an indoor baro/thermo/hygrometer, outdoor thermo-hygrometer, rain gauge, and anemometer. All of these sensors come together in a slick little main unit, which features touch-screen controls, weather forcasting, history, you name it, it probably has it. The base station is also capable of detecting 3 optional sensors – I had an old Oregon Scientific indoor/outdoor wireless thermometer (don\’t know the model, sorry), and the base station started picking up info from that sensor right away. Continue reading ‘Weather Station!’
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