The Home of Tom & Morven

The team The Crib WhatPulse team has just hit 10,000,000 key strokes (buttons on our keyboards). It has been roughly one year since we started, and already we’ve hit the 10,000,000 mark. Lets see if The Crib can make it to 30,000,000 by the end of the year! We won’t be able to do this without continual recruitment of new members. So, if you are interested in helping out collecting key strokes, please give one of us a shoutout! You will need to register an account and download the lightweight background utility that counts your every move to get started.

On another note, check out this trick I discovered in Google. A lot of webcams that are broadcasted on the internet can be found by typing this into Google and searching the web:

Love it…

http://www.wallettest.com/

Thanks to Sven for this link. I never knew there was such a thing as live drum n bass!

Thanks to Adzy for this beauty!

Thanks to Simon from work for this beauty!

I have a computer at home which I don’t connect to the internet. I use it to do a lot of stuff. I’ve always wondered how I could use the time I spend on it to boost my WhatPulse statistics as well as our Prime95 rankings.

• How to run Prime95 on a computer without internet via USB
• How to run Prime95 on a computer without internet via USB

How to run Prime95 on a computer without internet via USB

1. Using the computer with the available internet connection, Download Prime95 as a ZIP file and extract it to a folder on your removable USB drive.
2. Put the USB into the computer without internet, and load Prime95 for the first time. Set it up with your details etc, and specific settings. You will get communication errors because it’s trying to contact the internet. Ignore this.
3. Under Advanced, select Password. Enter the Password 9876 to enable the Advanced menu items you can’t currently access.
4. Under Advanced, select Manual Communication. Select the option so that it won’t try to automatically contact the PrimeNet server (deselect all options).
5. Take the USB to the computer with the internet, load it, and let it contact the PrimeNet server to retrieve jobs. It may be a good idea to retrieve a large number of days work at a time, so that you don’t need to update PrimeNet too often by taking it back to the computer with the internet connection. Unfortuantely it will update your CPU settings when you load Prime95 on the computer with the internet, but all this will affect is the statistics, it’s not too critical.
6. Close Prime95 and take it back to your computer without internet. Load it again, and run Prime95!
7. Whenever you would like to update the statistics, simply repeat steps 5 and 6.

How to run WhatPulse on a computer without internet via USB

1. Using the computer with the available internet connection, Download WhatPulse version 1.5 Beta 1 or later.
2. Exit any currently running instances of WhatPulse.
3. Install it to a folder on your USB drive, and setup WhatPulse like you normally would.
4. Exit WhatPulse, and reload any potential instances of WhatPulse that normally run on the computer with the available internet connection (undoing step 2).
5. Take the USB to the computer without internet, load WhatPulse, and collect your keystrokes.
6. When you want to Pulse, simply close WhatPulse, take the USB back to the computer with internet, and repeat steps 2 to 5.

I just heard how my brother went to Ikea, spent heaps of money on (pretty much I think essential) furniture but saved heaps of bling. Unfortunately, exactly like what happened to myself, he got home, and took something out of the box to find it’s not what he paid for. Typical bloody Ikea. I must stress that if you ever buy anything from Ikea be careful that you check each and every box before you leave the store!

Lately I’ve been a little frustrated. I think it was since I upgraded Wordpress to 2.0.5 that it broke my dBeautifier plugin v3.4 for PHP5. Awesome plugin, bummer that Joseph Newing decided to stop supporting it. Lots of people are using it, and will shortly run into this problem. C’mon Joseph, hows about another release update!

Here is a workaround I developed. I have modified the currently only available copy on the internet from Jeroen Onstenk (thanks buddy!) to include the changes required for the plugin to work with Wordpress 2.0.5 and 2.0.6. If you have any problems at all with this plugin you are welcome to ask me by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post.

;/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/dBeautifier_3.4-PHP5.zip;dBeautifier 3.4 for PHP5 and Wordpress 2.0.5 and 2.0.6;

Summary of Changes

1. Moved the icons directory from the /wp-content/plugins/dBeautifier/icons/ directory to the /wp-content/icons/ directory. This allows Wordpress 2.0.5 and 2.0.6 to be able to actually display images from the plugins directory.
2. In order for the above to work, lines 57 to 59 of dBeautifier_Filter.php were modified to the below:

   $img = get_option('siteurl') . "/wp-content/icons/$icon";
           } else {
   $img = get_option('siteurl') . "/wp-content/icons/downloads.png";

   This allows the icons to actually display.

3. Now about the CSS. For some reason the plugin wasn’t loading the CSS from the dBeautifier.css file included with the plugin, so I added it to my /wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css file. In fact, I also added a little extra CSS, because the theme I use adds a black border around images. This looks really nice with images in posts, but kind of stuffs up dBeautifier icons. So, the total CSS I added to my /wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css file is:

   /* CSS I added to get rid of borders on the icons */
   img.icon {
       border: none;
       background: none;
   }
   
   /* CSS by Joseph Newing required for dBeautifier to work nicely */
    .download-link {
       height: 50px;
       background: #f6f6f6;
       border: 1px solid #cccccc;
       margin: 0 0 5px 0;
       padding-left: 15px;
       }
   
    .download-link h4 {
       margin: 0;
       padding: 10px 0 0 5px;
       }
   
    .download-link p {
       margin: 0;
       padding: 0 0 0 30px;
       }
   
    .download-link img {
       float: left;
       margin: 5px 5px 0 5px;
       border: none;
       padding-top: 4px;
       }

4. Then, in order for my extra little piece of CSS to be implemented by the plugin, I had to change the class on line 93 of dBeautifier_Filter.php to become the icon class:

5. Finally, I accidentally overwrote the original icons that Joseph Newing included with the plugin. I obviously prefer myn so I’ll just leave them there for now. You can use whichever ones you want, please yourself.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the file from above, and unzip it to your wordpress root folder. This download already includes all the modifications except where I moved the plugins CSS into the themes CSS, you will have to do this manually.
2. Add the following to your /wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css file:

   /* CSS I added to get rid of borders on the icons */
   img.icon {
       border: none;
       background: none;
   }
   
   /* CSS by Joseph Newing required for dBeautifier to work nicely */
    .download-link {
       height: 50px;
       background: #f6f6f6;
       border: 1px solid #cccccc;
       margin: 0 0 5px 0;
       padding-left: 15px;
       }
   
    .download-link h4 {
       margin: 0;
       padding: 10px 0 0 5px;
       }
   
    .download-link p {
       margin: 0;
       padding: 0 0 0 30px;
       }
   
    .download-link img {
       float: left;
       margin: 5px 5px 0 5px;
       border: none;
       padding-top: 4px;
       }

3. Activate the plugin, and go to the dBeautifier tab in Options Panel to set your Wordpress directory.
4. You may like to add the XLS and PDF icons that I accidentally included with this package whilst you’re in the Options Panel. I will likely expand on the icons and file extensions that I use and create another download. If I get around to doing this in the next few weeks I’ll make sure I provide a link from this post.

I just bought a new bike. Would you believe me if I said I bought a tandem?

Brochure of my new tandem

File Size: 169.5 KB

Also, I put a deposit down for a 2007 Merida Mission 2000-D, 22inch.

Brochure of my new XC dualie

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The tandem is going to be an absolute turd to ride. It’s main feature is it’s a piece of CRAP. But, the idea is that it’s meant to be a bit of fun. Hopefully it might be enough fun to get some other people into cycling as well. If I encourage one person to ride a bike and get a little bit fit then it’s more than worth the money I’m wasting on this turd!

On a “lighter” note (excuse the pun), the XC mountain bike is going to be absolutely brilliant. It features nothing but pretty much the best everything, without being more expensive than what elites ride. In fact, I think this model might be what the elites ride! My idea is to get into endurance cross-country mountain biking. This will both get me back into some fun mountain biking but also be great for my marathon running. And my marathon running will be great for this type of riding! It’s going to be the only one of these bikes in Australia in this size. Two are coming out in this size, and one is already pre-sold in NZ.

I haven’t actually got either of them yet. The mountain bike should come in early Feb, and the tandem a bit sooner. Stay tuned!

I finished up at work on Friday before Christmas, and enjoyed a scrumptious feast with pretty much every ETSA employee there is, at ETSA Park, the netball stadium. That afternoon I watched my friend David To play and easily win a tennis tournament (both singles and doubles) where he won $2k prize money, a trip to America, and a wildcard entry into an ATP tournament.

I went home that night to our new kitchen which had pretty much just been finished with the renovations we’ve had done throughout December. We spent all night putting furniture back to normal. The Madsen’s came from Melbourne to stay for Christmas which was awesome as always. Carl helped me achieve a new high score playing Time Crisis 3 arcade game. We played soccer, and with his very last shot at goals to me he sprained his ankle badly. It was a shame as we were just about to go for a motorbike ride. Christie came with me for a motorbike ride instead. It was her first time, and I think she is hooked! I went to Morv’s family for Christmas Eve dinner and breakfast the next day, and then we came to my house for Christmas lunch. There were 18 of us in total at Christmas lunch.

That night, we went up to Lobethal to see the lights. It was cool to see them for about five minutes, but it gets a little repetitive and so we went home not long after getting there! It was also a bit far to drive I thought. Apparently there are photos on the internet anyway, we should have just looked at them!

On Boxing Day the Madsens left really early in the morning. I cleaned Aunt Cherilie’s car for her and finished drying it literally as they were driving off at 7am. Only a couple minutes after they had left, Dad spotted a koala in the gum tree above our driveway.

It was ironic how Christie had said the night before how on the motorbike ride was the first time she’d ever seen a koala in the wild, and it was a pity that she couldn’t yell loud enough for me to hear through my helmet so we could have stopped to look at it.

After seeing the koala, my family and myself went to Nanna’s to open some more presents. That afternoon, I went for a hike with Morven, her sister, and Archer-Bald (aka Archie). Archie was a little fella that Morv got from Myers. Every Myers employee got a little bear on a lanyard for Christmas.

Since Boxing Day, I’ve got back into running a little bit, started going to the gym again, and discovered the REAL source of my back pain I’ve had since I hurt myself skiing in Austria last year. Regardless of whether or not the pain is a result from the skiing incident, I have (allegedly, according to the Physio) no lower abdominal muscles, and I have really strong hamstrings from long distance running. This is bad bio-mechanics, because it results in my back doing all the support work when sitting down and standing up, or whenever. Basically, my abs are so weak they can’t take the load away from my back to give it a rest. So, I’m not providing my back with the proper environment for it to heal. So, every day, I’ve been doing heaps of sit-up crunches. Who knows, maybe in a few weeks I might even have a decent six-pack!

For New Years Eve, Morven and I went to the Perry’s house for a vegetarian barbeque. It was delicious! Rachel (Ben’s sister) actually did most of the work, including the invites of her brothers friends. After dinner, we went to Mick and Sarah’s house party in Norwood. I had taken an esky full of pre-mixed drinks and nibbles for the two of us, and we were set to have a really awesome night. I had driven us there, and we were going to leave the car there overnight and catch a bus home. The next day I was going to run back and pick the car up. When we got there, I immediately joined in on a game of throwing some random glow in the dark thing. Unfortunately after a couple minutes, my hand connected with a bee in mid-flight and I got stung. So, I had to get my old man to pick me up because I’m allergic to bees. It was my right hand, and it swelled up like a balloon that night. I was asleep in bed before midnight too, how demeaning! This is the second new years eve that I’ve gone home early due to bee stings! The other time was a party at Tom Roders house, where I had got stung during the day and was dancing that night. It wasn’t until I had been dancing that my foot swelled up so bad I couldn’t get my shoe off!

So anyway, I was due to go back to work today but the doctor yesterday advised not to, because of the antihistamines I’m on. I keep randomly falling asleep! I’m also on antibiotics because it is apparently infected. What I don’t really understand though, is what does it mean that I am infected. Does this mean you can get stung by a bee and NOT be infected? I’m not sure. What does infected even really mean? I think there’s a very grey line going on here. Either way, I should stop typing soon because my hand is getting sore again.

Lately I’ve been watching Torchwood, a spin-off TV Series from Doctor Who. Also, a great documentary I watched with Morv yesterday (except I fell asleep) is March of the Penguins. I highly recommend it if you have any interest in penguins at all. Very fascinating!