I had written a bunch and had a mess of post-type-information relating to Cisco CUPS, SOAP, PHP and all but I’m going to break it down into smaller chunks I think.

More shortly.

Got bored and added a Wordsearch based on all of the text options I use for the Character Name Generator Thingy.

This is a totally, utterly, and completely developed by Robert Klein, his SourceForge page for it here.

Go play around with it.  You can even make your own WordSearch shapes.

Plus, it’s all online and is a horribly delicious time-waster.

In trying to punch out a chat client that I could validate the originating client from, I decided I needed to come up with a simple method of some sort of tokenized, time-based encryption.  I also needed to be able to do this in both Javascript and PHP (and I have even adapted the same methods over to ASP/VBScript).

I figured the best thing to do would be to pass down a token that the receiving end knew about, and have it encrypted with a Unix EPOCH timestamp.

I had been struggling for a short time trying to figure out how to fix a problem I had encountered with images and style sheets (CSS) disappearing when I added a trailing slash to a URL (especially when the URL was straight to a file).

Apparently, this is the way things are SUPPOSED to work.   This makes relative paths truly relative.

Naked pages are truly a blight.

I been a on a bit of a kick with these silly name generator thingies.

I made yet another one that makes a random lunch menu based on real restaurant menus.

Just even more silliness.

The other day I went to log into World of Warcraft and got it up to the login screen when I had to step away for a few minutes.

I came back, and my computer had shut down.  What the deuce?  No kids around, so they didn’t shut it down.  Windows Updates are set to have my prior approval first.  Possibly a productivity conspiracy!  No gaming for you!  You have more WORKISH things to do!

My original intention was to replicate a random name generator (I was afraid the word generator over at Oh The Huge Manatee dot net might go away), and I ended up with Happenstance.

Well I finally got around to the name generator and, although it is a simpler, much more limited version of the one over at OTHM dot net, it does the job nicely giving me names that are reasonably spiffy and gives me a quick way to check whether the names might be a little off-kilter.

Go on, give it a try:  http://halytech.net/wownames/index.php

I been messing around with getting a random word generator working and got it sorta going (the original word generator is over here at Oh The Huge Manatee) and was totally sidetracked by grabbing random URLs from Google.

The random URL generators were out there, but most are non-functional, so I did one up myself.  It’s called Happenstance and it takes a word (or series of words) you enter, and searches Google for those words.

Of the 64 results you can get with the Google API, I randomly grab a URL and give it to you.

Out of that URL web contents, I grab all the words I can, make a unique list of them, and grab some random words off of that (up to 6 or so).  I then let you hit a button and search for those words on Google, and the cycle repeats (bring up a URL, grab words, search).

It’s still a little buggy, but it seems to work.  At least it’s ditching out PDFs for the unwary and I have a Not Safe For Work button and a panic button if you cannot unsee what you have seen.

Go check it out here and let me know what you think!

I’ve been getting a lot of spam e-mails from people claiming to represent Blizzard / Activision concerning my World of Warcraft account.  I’ve been saving them up to share them with you.

They all get readily caught by GMail’s spam filter well enough, but I check there because I get valid e-mails going there sometimes.

A few are very well crafted, and some are just plain silly.  I’ll post the non-obvious web sites that the links go to after the pictures.

*WARNING: I WOULD STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST VISITING ANY OF THESE WEB SITES AS THEY LARGELY CONTAIN MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INTENDED TO COMPROMISE YOUR COMPUTER AND SENSITIVE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN.

After the break, the e-mail.

Added an RPG here I think I like… Very customizable and tweakble and simple.

Legend of the Green Dragon can be had here.  Try it out.  Let me know what you think.