Smokey’s House of Paincakes

A warning to everyone out there who thinks they are safe on the internet. Read more here for the full details.

I love stealing things from J0k3r. He does all the work finding these things, and I reap the benefits!! Still though, I didn’t take the exact same theme as him, otherwise that would be too lame.

I guess those brits aren’t as bad as they say! ;)

Here’s a quick tip for creating some robust HTML reports.

Build an HTML table that resembles the following:

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>Heading 1</tr>
<td>Heading 2</tr>
<td>Heading 3</tr>
<td>Heading 4</tr>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Column 1</tr>
<td>Column 2</tr>
<td>Column 3</tr>
<td>Column 4</tr>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Then, create a style sheet with the following rule:

@media print
{
thead { display: table-header-group; }
}

Now if you were to print out this report and it spanned multiple pages, the header will automatically appear on the top of every page.

I don’t know how many of you are using the Google Homepage as their, well, homepage, but I tell ya, I just love it. I can keep a quick glance at my emails, the weather and all my RSS feeds so I know what all my buds are up to.

If you log into today, you’ll notice a handy little “Select a Theme” button. It’s not Google’s usual style, but they are now providing some graphical themes to their layout, and I have to admit, they’re pretty cool! The best part, is they change based on season and time of day. How wicked is that???

On another note, I remember reading yesterday that the Google page was made so simple because the creators didn’t know HTML. Just some randomness for ya!

Last night I cleared out a ton of junk. Mostly duplicate cables and what not, but I did find a couple of things worth giving away. I found an old Logitec Webcam and a Nostromo n50 dealie (take a look at the link, I’m too lazy to describe it).

So, any takers?? Lemme know, first come first serve!

Daily Haiku

Chilling Memory
All That Is Gone Is Not Lost
Better To Forget

First off, my month of Detox went great and I didn’t have a single drink! I’ve even expanded it a few days, but that’s gonna end this weekend with the UFC fight going on ;)

Also, I still haven’t smoked yet, and according to my program, I’ve achieved the one month milestone today!

My name is SmokeyB, and I am a nicotine addict.
I have stopped nicotine for 1 month, 7 hours, 51 minutes and 40 seconds (31 days).

I’ve not smoked 533 death sticks, and saved $218.63.
I’ve saved 1 day, 20 hours and 22 minutes of my life.

Also, if any of you are using Firefox (which I highly recommend) you’ll notice my new Favicon in the address bar!

If you’re using IE, you’ll see it if you bookmarked me!

If Microsoft would just get it right and natively support Divx, we wouldn’t need this tutorial and everything would be wonderful!

That not being the case, I figured I would put this together because it took me a hell of a long time searching for this correct information. Now we have it step by step.

What you’ll Need:
Microsoft Media 9 Encoder
The Divx Codec
Plus any other Codec you may need to view your Divx file with (ie: AC3).

Once everything is installed, start the Media 9 Encoder and start a New Session.

1. On the Input tab click the File radio button and choose your file. Give it a moment cause it needs to examine the file and it may look like it has frozen. Don’t worry, everything will be fine shortly.
2. On the Output tab, select where and what to call your new file.
3. Now select the Compression tab and click Edit.
4. Under the Media Types section, select Quality VBR for both Audio and Video Modes.
5. Click on the newly created Quality-based tab.
6. For Video Size check the Same as video input box.
7. Change the Video quality to 100.
8. Click Ok to go back to the Compression tab and click Apply to set your options to the video. Again, this will take a few moments to process, so have a little patience.
9. Once applied, click on Start Encoding and watch ‘er go!

This will now create an Xbox 360 compatible WMV at the best possible quality. The file will be significantly larger, but it will work. Burn it to a DVD or stream away with Media Player 11.

If you don’t need the best quality, play around with the options to suit your own needs.

Warning: This method took me 4 hours to convert a 2 hour movie on a Pentium 4 3.4 with HT. The same method was less than 2 hours on a Duo Core Pentium 3.4.

I know that Gwilly and Steve-O want to get their hands on one of these bad boys!

Hell, if I was going to buy a projection tv, this would probably be the one I would get!

Matteo commented on one of my previous posts wondering how I was able to get the Links section to display properly after upgrading to the widgets sidebar.

So, I figured I’d share with all, just in case you too want to make the switch.

Basically, it’s a fault in the widgets.php file itself.

If you look in the file, you’ll find the following section of code for the links:

function widget_links($args) {
	global $wp_db_version;
	extract($args);

	if ( $wp_db_version < 3582 ) {
		// This ONLY works with li/h2 sidebars.
		get_links_list();
	} else {
		wp_list_bookmarks(array('title_before'=>$before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title));
	}
}

This needs to be changed to:

function widget_links($args) {
	global $wp_db_version;
	extract($args);

	if ( $wp_db_version < 3582 ) {
		// This ONLY works with li/h2 sidebars.
		echo $before_widget;
		get_links_list();
		echo $after_widget;
	} else {
		wp_list_bookmarks(array('title_before'=>$before_title, 'title_after'=>$after_title));
	}
}

To allow your sidebar styles to be properly applied to your theme. Notice the echo $before_widget; and the echo $after_widget;. These are the key to making it compatible. I’m surprise this wasn’t actually done in the widgets plugin in the first place, since many of the other functions have them.

Oh well, maybe it’ll be fixed in the next version!