Monthly Archives: September 2007

Second Life Region List – with links

I’ve tweaked the scripts I use to generate the region lists so the regions that are located on Second Life’s Main Grid have secondlife:// urls so you can jump straight to them. I’m not going to be using SLurls unless enough people ask for them.

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer: Using the BotBouncer API

In my previous post, I showed how a one-line modification would allow you to route OpenID logins through BotBouncer to help protect your WordPress blog from bot-spam. There was one problem with the one-liner method though, it’d route logins through BotBouncer every time a user tried to login to your WordPress blog with their OpenID- [...]

Modding WPopenid to produce valid XHTML

user-interface.php remove <h4> and </h4> from lines 282 and 285

How to cancel your Monster UK (Job Seeker service) account

Recently, Monster had a security issue resulting in the theft of their users’ data. Considering in all the time I’ve had an account on Monster I’ve yet to receive any useful search results, and taking into account that hResume hypothetically allows for decentralised job searches (blowing up current job seeker website business models :-P ), [...]

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer

If you’re not familiar with them…. WPopenid is a plugin for WordPress to allow OpenID logins, and BotBouncer is a CAPTCHA service for OpenIDs. The Mod openid-registration.php, line 257 $this->start_login( $_POST['openid_url'], ‘http://botbouncer.com/captcha/queryuser?return_to=’ . urlencode(get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/’ . $redirect_to) . ‘&openid=’ . $_POST['openid_url'] );

Possible code borkage

If you happen to use any service I maintain, there’s a chance it might stop working over the next couple of days. In anticipation of WordPress 2.3 being released, I’m restructuring my UHU codebase to be easier to manage- as well as putting in upgrades to the development branch of version 3 to handle these [...]

Where's Wally/Waldo

Just something I noticed in the latest strip for The Noob

SL Map API deux

SL Map API Following on from my previous post, I’ve now kinda got my SL Map API back to where it was. I’m still not doing all the image processing yet, and there’s two reasons for this: the whole process takes quite a long time to complete, as well as taking up a substantial amount [...]

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