Not sure why I felt compelled to make this, but I figured a lot of people might like to have it. This plugin will add one of those silly “Current Mood” icons to the beginning of all your posts. Read the instructions in the plugin comments for how to use it and where to get the icons.

Download the plugin here (NOTE: Yes, I moved development to wp-plugins.org)

(No I won’t demonstrate it here. Current mood = straight)

Current version: 1.1

Changes since 1.0:

- Moods no longer show at all for posts with no mood added
- Made the image end with xhtml 1.0 transitional code.

More mood icons found here.

I threw together a quick plugin for the new WordPress 1.2 that will email addresses when the site has a new or updated entry. I’ve put the newest version of this plugin here rather than pasting the whole thing in this post (and messing up formatting).

(I also recently found this site which has some hacks available for subscription lists)

Be sure to put this file in wp-content/plugins as update-notify.php

Latest version: 1.2

Changes since 1.1:

• Only those posts that are ‘published’ will send mail (i.e., if you simply save the post when editing, it will not mail out to the list). Thanks to the edits listed in the new Subscriber plugin, which you may or may not like better than this one.

Changes since 1.0:

• Only emails on new and published posts (i.e., no drafts or private posts)

Changes since 0.3:

n now easily update the email list by instead creating a private post as the admin user (user ID#1) with a title of “updatenotify-list”. Each address must be on a seperate line.
• Added a permalink to the post in the email body.

Check this link in the future for updates (if I make any).

God help the person who bids on this.

…Well, unless you’re planning on using it as a dog’s chewtoy.

(Chapter 1, Chapter 2)

Let’s start out in the order of introduction so far:

Chewie — As you may have guessed it, yes he is named after that Chewie. Does he look like Chewbacca? Not really. Does he act like Chewbacca? Eh…no. Does he smell like Chewbacca? N…well actually, that’s debatable, but if you were to ask me if he sounds like Chewbacca, I would have to unequivocally say, “hell yes!” That boy could churn out wookie grunts, growls and howls like none other than the chestnut colored alien we’ve all come to love.

Glum — If you’re old enough to remember The Banana Splits & Friends Show (”Oh oh Chongo!”), you may recall The Adventures of Gulliver, where a Lilliputian by the name of “Glum” would reliably put a damper on the others’ plans by saying, “We’re doomed! We’ll never make it!” “Fearless leader” isn’t necessarily the first term we’d use to describe our chapter president.

Stinky — Stinky is Glum’s older brother, and he’s one of the few I still keep in contact with. How he got his nickname, I’m not going reveal here. This is not because of a strange fraternal secret oath, but rather I think you’d thank me for not telling you. Let’s just say that it doesn’t have to do with how he smells. Well, at least not when I saw him last, but you know how age does things to people.

Butler — This is yet another name that you’ll thank me for not telling you the meaning of. In fact, I’m not all too sure I should be telling you any of them. But since I’ve not revealed the fraternity in question nor the real names of these people, I’m confident I’m safe from having my every body hair infested by the fleas of a thousand camels — something sworn upon us all should we reveal such secrets. Anyway…Butler. Butler’s nickname became so ingrained upon him that it’s believed all but the founding fathers of our fraternity chapter didn’t know his real name. It’s believed his own parents and siblings decided to start calling him ‘Butler’, most likely because anyone calling his home would ask for him by that name. Butler could easily be the subject of a whole set of other stories on his own. This man is probably the closest to Animal House’s Bluto that we had.

Bixby — The name ‘Bixby’ of course comes from The Hulk’s alter-ego, so-to-speak. Now you have to imagine that this guy, at least at the time, was one skinny dude, mabe weighed one-fifty soaking wet. In other words, this was no warrior by any means in the physique department. However, get on this man’s wrong side, and The Hulk was indeed unleashed. There was talk that he took down ten guys on his own while in a drunken stupor, wearing a vodka-punch soaked toga at three A.M., with two of the guys holding his arms back. His cigarette never left his mouth.

Check this entry again soon for more introductions!

From last night, as Illyria is playing some form of Mario Brothers: “It’s pointless. And annoys me. And yet I am compelled to play on.”

…OK you wouldn’t get it unless you watched the show.

This New York Times artile, about the seemingly neverending battle between TV execs and the leaking of spoilers to the internet, includes the line, “A.A. for people determined not to peek.” I admit it — I can’t help myself from diving into spoilers for some of the more popular shows (although all but one will be off the air for good in a few weeks). I’ll happen along to Watch with Kristen or A.I.C.N. for my weekly dose of spoilery goodness.

I think someone needs to start a S.W.A. (Spoiler Whores Anonymous) for people like me. Actually, I think it’s called “not watching TV.”