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DeviantART is a huge artist community. Twitter is a huge… blogging thing. Obviously some kind of combination/mashup is mandatory, so I figured out how to get your deviations automatically posted to Twitter. Yeah, I’m bored. First, you will need to figure out your DeviantART RSS feed address. The generic form is this : http://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=by%3Ausername+sort%3Atime Replace [...]

Behold, my lame attempt to recreate the robotic spacecraft in Spore Creature Editor! :P You can’t really make asymmetric creatures in the Creature Creator, so I couldn’t add all the equipment to the top surface. Also, no parts match the solar panel coloring well enough, hence no panels. Eh, it was fun anyway.

A PHP class that uses cURL to log in to cPanel. Can create MySQL databases and users, add users to databases, list existing databases, and more.

A simple PHP function that can make TOR switch to a new identity. The script also supports TOR authentication.

A short guide that describes how to add the Identify as Opera/IE/Firefox user agent options to the Quick Preferences popup menu. This method works in Opera 9.5 and, hopefully, later versions.

If you can read this and see this post on the site (not just in the RSS feed), then the site has been moved okay and DNS propagation has finished. It seems nothing important was lost in the process, aside from a days worth of network stats and possibly an email or two. Some random [...]

I’m working on moving this site to a new, better server. A VPS, to be exact. Transferring the data was relatively easy, but domain transfer is taking a while – I probably should have done that first. Ah well, live and learn. There may be some spurious downtime while all the DNS stuff is sorted [...]

I thought it would be handy if I could get the various DA notifications (deviantWATCH, new comments on your deviations, etc) as a RSS feed, so I created a PHP script that can log into a DA account and generate the feed. It creates three feeds – New deviations from your deviantWATCH (with thumbnails!). Messages [...]

A new version of the WordPress plugin, now with an improved FireFox extension, ability to delete themes and some bugfixes. Still updates and installs plugins, too.

I figured I’ll give Twitter a shot. Again. My Twitter account = white_shadow I signed up about a year ago because it was mentioned in the ThirtyDayChallenge. But I never really did anything with it – I didn’t “get” the social marketing aspect promoted in the TDC, and had no actual purpose. So I let [...]