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Print Story I made another thing
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By codemonkey uk (Fri Dec 16, 2011 at 08:26:42 AM EST) (all tags)
This time it's a website:

socialnetworkmash.com

Which is:

"A tribute too / parody of FaceMash, that lets you vote for your favorite Social Networking sites, and perhaps discover ones you didn't know existed!"


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Print Story Hosting Wishlist
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By codemonkey uk (Tue Nov 15, 2011 at 08:44:06 AM EST) (all tags)
Since the simple "homepage.mac.com" hosting service is being discontinued I am on the look out for some place else to host my stuff, and my wife's stuff.

What follows is my wishlist of things I'd like to be able to do.

If I've missed anything obvious, let me know. If you can recommend a provided that meets my needs (to some degree), the let me know.

Thanks!


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Print Story Dear America
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By codemonkey uk (Thu Nov 10, 2011 at 06:20:09 PM EST) (all tags)
You have a top politician apparently standing on a platform that includes the policy  of scrapping government funding of education.

Your students riot when an old guy gets fired for not reporting child abuse.


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Print Story Great South Run
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By codemonkey uk (Mon Oct 31, 2011 at 08:43:27 AM EST) (all tags)
I ran it.

10 miles, 01:37:23, 8292th of 24,000.


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Print Story Life Update
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By codemonkey uk (Fri Sep 30, 2011 at 08:50:06 AM EST) (all tags)
I have managed 10 miles. That's ~16k.  The Great South Run (10m) is in one month. I do 5k in ~30min and the 16k in ~1h 40m. That kind of running is really hard work for me.

In other news, I made a browser/js/twitter hack that  looks at a tweet that has been chain-retweeted, and works out the graph of people two were involved in the re-tweeting. It works for stuff that's been retweeted up to about 140 times. Any more than that and it hits the rate-limit.


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Print Story I wrote a thing
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By codemonkey uk (Mon Jul 18, 2011 at 05:35:43 PM EST) (all tags)
And then I wrote another thing about the first thing.

This post being mostly for people who don't read my Twitter. And google.


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Print Story 5k and more...
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By codemonkey uk (Thu May 19, 2011 at 08:59:21 AM EST) (all tags)
I have now run a 5k in under 30 mins. 16k in under 2 hours by October looks feasible now.

If you have an account here, you can see my nearly-finished browser game, by looking for the link in my recent post to The Hole.


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Print Story Web Development / Javascript Question: Back Button
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By codemonkey uk (Wed May 04, 2011 at 04:59:36 PM EST) (all tags)
Okay, so the google-fu is failing me on this one - and it's too long to ask in a tweet, so I'll ask here.

In my browser game, which is implemented as a single page of html/css/javescript, the page loads as static html, with a menu of start options in the form: <a onclick="..." href="#">Go</a> Where the onclick handler is a javascript call that rebuilds the page according to what option you select and the game begins.

It seems like a natural thing for the user to hit "back" at this point to return to the menu, but hitting back in the browser at this point does not reload the page.

How do I make it do that?


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Print Story World Hide and Seek Champion Jokes
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By codemonkey uk (Mon May 02, 2011 at 05:01:47 PM EST) (all tags)
I'm am sick of this joke, because of it is based on two factual errors.

(1) Everyone quotes it as 2001-2011, but Osama was already wanted for the 1998 US Embassy bomb attacks.

(2) OBL didn't even come close to longest-standing-wanted. Victor Manuel Gerena is on the FBI most wanted list for crimes committed in 1983, beating Osama by about 15 years, and still going.


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Print Story I love April Fools Day
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By codemonkey uk (Fri Apr 01, 2011 at 10:07:21 AM EST) (all tags)
I can say whatever I like, and if I'm wrong: LOL APRIL FOOLS!

Also: Google +1.  LOL NICE ONE GOOGLE, ALMOST HAD ME THERE!


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