Some new things going on in the linklist and the site, if you haven’t noticed. I’ve added a new section, called TODO, as you can see in the left hand column. I’ve added this so that I will not be distributing my TODO list with my mod, mainly because I Seriously don’t think everyone even bothers looking at that file. (Of course, I’m assuming too that you are looking at this site. Which I hope you are, since the site will Really have the latest info on the modules/plugins I make.)

Also, I’m gonna work a small redesign of the site. I just want to structure a few things differently and get this site a bit more organized right and show what I want to show and so on. So I’ll be working on that too.

I also have plans on a CHANGES page, just like my TODO page. Oh, you’ll notice that you can comment on the TODO’s, so that will give you the ability to express any concerns, suggestions, etc to that feature I’m looking to implement. There are actually a few more that I’ve been wanting to add, I just need to remember all of them.

I’m finally getting organized. Wow.

Linklist 1.3 is just over the horizon, and there will be some small changes to how the linklist is viewed by super admins. Look in the TODO section to find out exactly what they are and the progress of the feature.

Well, that’s all for now, I’m still alive and kicking.

You gotta love this. Is this Really real? I mean, I would love to hear that this actually happened. I love it!

Warcraft Plague Runs Amok: “Players in the popular online game find themselves fighting an unstoppable virtual virus. From the Wired News blog Gadgeteer.”

(Via Wired News.)

I found this interview Really interesting. It just goes to show that Blizzard has a cookie-cutter reply to just about everything. I’m surprised at how many questions went kinda unanswered. Of course, this doesn’t hinder the fact that I love to play this game, and by no means will it decrease my interest in playing. I just found the interview some interesting reading.

Slashdot: World of Warcraft Interview “Responses”

You sheep your boyfriend. Oy!

Sheep!

I’m glad Meesh doesn’t play WoW :/

Whoa. Ok, I’m thinking the donkey meat…ok, not *too* exotic, but the Tiger URINE. Um…Check please.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Donkey

Okay, so now everyone’s waiting to see the Playboy article/pictorial about this. Come on.

Teacher too sexy for religious classes?

OH, this is WRONG… “Police in West Hartford, Conn., arrested Matthew Flynn, 46, in August for allegedly threatening to castrate a Melly’s ice-cream truck driver with a pair of hedge clippers because the driver blared his jingle on and on and on…” full story and more

Ok, I’ve made some bug fixes for version 1.2. I considered making this version 1.2.1, however, there were no real changes to the module to warrant a semi-point release. Here’s what’s been fixed:

- Cosmetic changes. (even more) You’ll notice the inline documentation looks much, much prettier

- Fixed a bug with importing OPML files versus OPML urls

- Fixed a bug with PHP 4.4 and passing variables by reference

- Fixed a rather silly bug of not being able to save a linklist because the module thought you were creating a whole new linklist with a duplicate name. :p

Feel free to download the file yet again and make sure you replace all the files (mcp.linklist.php, mod.linklist.php, and lang.linklist.php).

If you didn’t already know, iTunes 5 is already out to download. It doesn’t quite show up on checking for updated versions on Mac or Windows, so until they put that in their update, you’ll have to download it from their site directly. :)

Let’s hope it’s Really cool and does lots of great stuff.

(UPDATE: Well, I tried downloading the version for windows, but…the site is busy. Great. At least I got the download for the mac version from MacUpdate.)

I’ve been doing some thinking (bad, bad thing… thinking=more projects) and I’ve been considering whether or not to make up an AJAX plugin that will work for EE. This could definitely get me to work on AJAX applications. Though I’m not too keen on starting a new project ( especially since I’ve been trying to hash out the new 1.3 linklist ) although a project for work has a small sideline of using AJAX in the ginormous application I’ve been building.

So, I might consider doing something. But I think I’m just wondering if anyone Really uses these things anymore. There are a few things (and let me brainstorm here):

1. spammers… we’re gonna get them. there’s no doubt. One method is to rely on the .htaccess file that the Blacklist/Whitelist module creates (or can create). Or if you don’t use the .htaccess file method (for those unfortunate to not be able to use them) we could compare posts to the blacklist/whitelist just like comments. We’d also have to use the same method of preventing comment spam in the shoutbox as well. I say this because I KNOW spammers flock to things like a shoutbox. Especially if it’s displays their URLs.

2. Bandwidth… it might not seem like a big concern, but the potential is there. It can happen.

3. Member Integration… It almost has to be just like posting comments. If you’re logged in, then there should be no reason whatsoever to put in your name/alias or URL. That stuff is in the system, it should be used.

There are a few things to keep in consideration. I guess I just want to know if there’s truly an interest out there. After a while, I’ve seen comment boxes as a way for spammers to spam the hell out of a site.

And of course, there’s always the “old” way of creating a shoutbox.