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I’ve updated WP Twitter.
There was a little bug with the regexp, but it now matches from the start of the entry, and doesn’t match email addresses.
It also works with #tags, too.
Get it here.

Add Comment February 22nd, 2009 at 09:33pm

Posted in Uncategorized, internet and coding.

Just written another plugin.
This time it’s for twitter, By request of Bill, aka @mr_billiam

It replaces @username with a link to their twitter profile.

Code is here. Enjoy it.

UPDATE: it now doesn’t match things it shouldn’t, like email addresses

2 Comments February 4th, 2009 at 10:10pm

Posted in Uncategorized.

I’m just testing something for @mr_billiam here.

Add Comment February 4th, 2009 at 09:53pm

Posted in Uncategorized, plugins and coding.

i’m still here!

Add Comment June 15th, 2008 at 04:04pm

Posted in Uncategorized.

i often end up at some really strange sites on my internet “travels” (so to speak).
anyway, i was at travel.travel/ just before, looked up, and saw a very familiar favicon.

http://www.travel.travel/favicon.ico.

i’m confused…

Add Comment January 10th, 2008 at 01:53pm

Posted in random, weird and internet.

i’m sitting here, on a mac. and yes, i still hate them.

1 Comment January 9th, 2008 at 11:20am

Posted in Uncategorized, computer, internet and bitching.

i’ve been pretty quiet lately.

thought i had to post a video though. gave me a good chuckle when i needed one
it’s in response to that chris crocker video.

or you can see it here.

Add Comment September 18th, 2007 at 08:08pm

Posted in Uncategorized.

woot. a big bitch about three.

As I said a few weeks ago, I got a new phone.
Because three are, quite frankly, shit.

Started off in April of ‘06. The screen on my old nokia started occasionally going black. Wasn’t a major problem, just a bit inconvenient.

So I went to three, to get a Nokia 6280. since it seemed like a decent enough phone. Filled in forms and whatever, wasn’t exactly service with a smile, but it didn’t really bother me.

Anyway. Get in the car, put the battery in, turns on fine.
Take a picture or two to test out the 2mp camera. Seems quite good.

Then the screen went black. I figured it was just because there wasn’t much charge in the battery.

Aaaanywho, fast forward to a week later, and it had happened two or three times. Then the phone was actually restarting.
So I took it to the Chirnside Park 3 shop, and they said there’s a crappy firmware in the phone, and to come back later.
Kept coming back every week or so, and either got told to come back later when there’s a new firmware, or that I’ve broken my phone myself.

I found it quite odd that Three/Nokia/whoever were still selling this phone, despite having a shit firmware, but whatever.

Got a phone call one day, and when I tried to answer it, my phone froze. Then it happened all the time. I’d get an sms, or phone call, and the phone would freeze, so I’d have to reset the phone to get it working again.

Finally got told by three that I could get the firmware fixed, but I’d have to either go into the city and get Nokia to fix it, which’d take a day or two, or I could get Three to do that, with a $10 credit on my bill, but it’d take a few weeks, and I’d have no replacement phone.
I didn’t like the sound of either of them, so I called Three to bitch, and got told the same thing.
I was also offered a reconditioned phone, of the same model and age, which I told them no to.
I don’t see why I should have someone elses old phone, because I was given a new, faulty one.

Eventually it was getting too annoying. Couldn’t do ANYTHING on my phone without it freezing. Then the screen started going really bad. Inverted colours, upside down, pixellated, scrambled, fuzzy, pretty much anything that can go wrong with a screen did.

So I took it to three, and finally got someone there that wasn’t a cocky little turd. A customer service person that was actually nice, and helpful. So after I got over the shock of that, I showed her my phone and the problems, and was told that “it’s not your fault. It’s a fault with the phone”.
But even though they’re finally admitting fault, they told me that I was about a week too late to get my phone fixed under warranty.

So I called three and bitched, and was rudely told that “we tried to offer you a new phone, but you declined.”
To which I stated my opinion.

I called about cancelling my account, and was asked why, so I told them that it’s because of all the problems, and was told how much I’d have to pay to get out.

A month or so later, I called again to check, since I was further into my contract. Again I was asked the reason, so I made up some bullshit about going to England, and they said “Well it says here that you’ve asked before, and stated three’s service is the reason”.
When I asked them why they asked me, when they already knew, they stuttered some crap that I didn’t listen to.

Anyway, this sort of shit kept going on for ages. And I called up finally to get a fee so I could get out of my contract.
I was insulted several times, spoken to really rudely, and then asked a question about my phone. When I tried to answer it, I was interrupted about 6 times, which resulted in my yelling “Let me spea… let me… let me… GARY. let me speak”, then I was told that I’ve been offered a reconditioned phone several times, and rejected the offer. I told them to read their files and see why I declined it. Apparantly not listening to me, I was offered another reconditioned phone, to which I replied “I don’t want a fucking old phone. I want mine fixed“.

“Gary”, the call center dude, then said that “If I keep being rude, they’ll have to end the call.” I was pissed off by now, so told him to that I can end it for him, and hung up.

I looked up, and realised that I was standing outside a Telstra Shop, which seemed mildly convenient.

So I walked inside to ask for the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s phone number, and ended up looking at other phones, and picked up a hiptop.

It was a totally different experience to being with three. The people were quite friendly, and I’d just happened to mention my troubles with three. The lady arranging the phone left for a minute, and came back to tell me that she’d arranged $150 credit on my Telstra account, to help alleviate the costs of paying out the rest of my 3 contract.
I thought that seemed nice enough of them.
So that was all jolly and good. Happy with the phone, and it’s features. Definately happy with the price.

Decided I should give the old phone the treatment it deserves. So I threw it at someone, then put it under a car tyre.

I got a bill from Telstra a few days later saying I had $200 credit on my account. But because of GST, it was $220. That was good. it’s 3 months of phone bills out of the way.

So all in all, Telstra pwns 3. But 3 being the cause of 47% of the TIO’s complaints last year kinda says that anyway.

Yeah, I hate three.

Add Comment July 27th, 2007 at 08:37pm

Posted in computer, random and bitching.

Music: rogue traders - world go round

could be completely wrong here, so don’t be telling me off if I am, but the new mood thing on myspace looks veeery familiar.

it’s the exact same mood list (down to the id numbers in the select box) as the one that livejournal has been using for years and years.

maybe it’s just a strange magical coincidence.
or maybe there’s a nice list with strange id’s out there that’s free for people to use.
or maybe they bought the code from sixapart.
or maybe the stole it.
i dunno.

Add Comment July 15th, 2007 at 06:24pm

Posted in random, weird, internet and bitching.

i learnt an important lesson at work tonight.
don’t sneeze while holding scissors.
i very nearly lost an eye.

Add Comment June 26th, 2007 at 01:05am

Posted in random and weird.

got a new phone today.
a hiptop or sidekick, or whatever you want to call it.

tis good. the people at Telstra were really helpful. Which is more than I can say for three. (But we’ll save that for another day).

Now all i need to do is have my phone hacked, and get some naked photos stolen, and then have all my friends phone numbers published.

but I guess I’m not quite as popular as Pete, and that scrag Paris, am I?

1 Comment June 13th, 2007 at 09:35pm

Posted in computer and random.

brand new. billboards. 8th of june. best gig ever.
nuff said.

but i’ll say more. just coz it was that fucking amazing. and i always say that. but this time i mean it

as far as i can remember, the set list was:
Jaws Theme Swimming
Sic Transit Gloria
The Shower Scene
The No Seatbelt Song
Me vs Maradona vs Elvis
The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don’t
Play Crack the Sky
Coca Cola - was REALLY good, but not many people knew the song and everyone was talking through it.
Welcome to Bangkok
Sowing Season
Millstone - ended with Jesse crouched down belting the drums
The Archers Bows Have Broken
Luca
Limousine
Handcuffs
Jesus
Degausser - this time, it was about “a worm that crawls into a crickets head, and then makes the cricket commit suicide, and the worm crawls out again”
You Won’t Know. - quite possibly their best song of the night.

not exactly an interesting ‘review’, really. but fuck it was a brilliant show.

Add Comment June 11th, 2007 at 11:34pm

Posted in music and memories.

as mashable puts it,

"Reactee is a unique service that lets you wear your message on your shirt, along with a number for others to text their support via their mobile phones."

there aught to be an Australian version of this…

Add Comment June 5th, 2007 at 02:54am

Posted in random, friends, funny and internet.

note to self:
sending screenshots of color oracle to people, to show your colour blindness DOESN’T work.

8 Comments May 19th, 2007 at 11:12pm

Posted in computer, random and weird.

I got bored, and decided to mess around a bit with some javascript. i found a battleships script, and modified it a bit. Slightly crap because the computer only moves 16 times, and it’s game over.

I also added some hex coords to the game, and a list of shots at the bottom, just to make it easier to keep track of where you’ve been.

I should figure out how to encode this on to a HD-DVD. Until then, I’ll just have to stick with this, and watching the familiar pattern of the computer’s moves…

anyway, the game can be found at ttam.org/battleships/…enjoy.

Add Comment May 2nd, 2007 at 09:17pm

Posted in computer, weird, internet and coding.

don’t usually put things like this on room5, but i’m totally bored.

from eirenealetheia.

Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter;
then you have to list 10 things you like
starting with that letter. Post them in your
journal and give out new letters to your
commenters in turn. NO TAGBACKSALLOWED,
unless a commenter specifically requests to be
given a letter!

i got w