Hudson’s Rather Random Homepage

No, I’m not dead, just busy. Real life does that to people. You should try it, it’s fun. Got some spare time, wanted to update my work logs, but then the pain and annoyance of doing the images by hand made me finally update my wordpress a bit.

Say hello to the new and improved ImageManager with upgraded Lightbox 2.2 built right in! I tried using the stock IM and LB plugins off the website, but it was like the author just threw them together. Skipping the code mumbo jumbo, I modified the IM plugin, made my own lightbox plugin, and added a few features to either so they took full advantage of each other. This thing even makes thumbnails on the fly and has a built in basic image editor for cropping and sizing.
Check it out, click on a picture, you can use the N or P keys to go back or forth, or just hover your mouse around the left or right side of the image to see the buttons.

And the great news? For those of you paranoid tards with IE, it even works in IE, and if you are lacking javascript, defaults back to normal link mode.

Yes I know the css files have some issues still, I haven’t had time to pick through all the code and tweak the href and underline crap yet.

Just a small update, i have been working on the bike, but not postiong updates yet. it’s just been really minor stuff, like clutch cable, battery pads, but then i got the stuff to do the new fuel lines and filter system, which not only looks cool, its increased the demand and supply responsiveness of my fuel system enough to make the bike much more responsive on the throttle. I also figured out the ‘vapor lock’ claims i keep hearing, and i have been snickering ever since i figured out WTF these people have all been (wrongly) talking about. (and the fact nobody seems to know how to get around it..durdurdur..)

I’m still working to encode the video of the last segment instalation first however, but its a bit of a monster. Other video’s will be more..sectional, and easier to swallow.

But doesn’t all the teasing little tidbits above just make you insanely curious? ;]

Also, got a bike jack today, not bad for 60 bucks at sears. on sale too (special thanks to my father who spotted that and gave me a call. thanks dad! now about that CNC machine..).

If you are into bikes and want a new lift, check out sears, its not a bad little peice of hardware for the cost. And on that subject, somebody should probably confine me to quaters or something as i am currently looking at CAD files for a home-brew powersport dyno platform and already have the software to use its output too.

Those things are fucking handy for so many different things it’s not even funny, now that the engine is starting to really behave itself, it’s almost silly to test drive around here, i can’t gather data, and high speeds in this area isn’t exactly smiled upon, and i like to test my machines before i TEST my machines. something about serious engine problems at 50 miles an hour on a busy road that just doesn’t settle with me very well.

Maybe i’m just paranoid, but paranoia keeps millions of people alive every year..

Just a short update, i got the carbs tore down and checked then rebuilt, i found our culprit from the last chapter of ther dragon bike log.

Just to test something, I decided to do this one in video format, since it could be fun to do one that way (and thats what this is all about, after all), working on getitg it all edited together and nice looking, then I’ll post it, but for those of you who dont like vids, it will also have a text post also to go with it.

Oh, and this time the gang got into the video work (okay, with a few twinkies for bait), but they really handled the video and stills pretty well, i think this video could turn out kind of nice.

Just posting this so you don’t think i like..died, or something.

See, this is what I get for not reading the entire codex. Seems WP has a xmlrpc system in it that lets you post remotely with client tools and happy horse crap like that. It’s intended for the WP’s owner to be able to post without having to use the website itself, cool idea, even if i’m not too keen on xmlrpc myself.

Thats great and all, but I’m not too keen on people posting comments, remotely, on pages (not posts, pages) with comments TURNED OFF on them, and the posting IP being recorded as my webservers local IP. i’m also not too keen on the fact that the ‘logging’ built into this php file is set to ../blahblah.log, which makes things a pain as it is if you install wp in your docroot. (because ../ is outside of it, and you probably don’t have perms set there for the webserver. which by the time you notice and need the log file, it’s not there because it was set to a stupid location by default, and the file couldnt be created or written even if it was there. :P) also not keen, what, no admin ability to turn off that script on the interface? Thats not keen!
I’m also not too keen on the poster being the gramar and spelling nazi type. Look, if i really gave that mch of a shit how perfect my typing was, I’d get an editor. but thanks for the effort either way, whoever you were. Feel free to come back and enjoy more of my abuse of the english language anytime. but you will need to come in and comment like a normal user, I removed the xmlrpc.php file. ;)

I guess i’m not a very keen person. Oh well, so much for me being a catchy web-comic or something.

Oh yeah, I moved my entire website over to a backup directory. I’ll get the stuff back up after a bit - Some will be posted, some will just be thrown back in a directory where you will find it again where you normally would, others will be shot off into space to protect us from space-dwelling monster turd-asteroids, etc.

You have been serv-, er, told, Don’t email me asking where shit went! :P

Yes, I have a blog-like site now.

Yes, you should be afraid.

Yes, I downloaded this theme, but mainly because the fuckheads claiming to have ‘made’ it (some bullshit download spyware website that cranked out a fuckton of theme designs(???)), and they ‘made’ it look exactly (not almost exactly, EXACTLY) like a web-design I did for somebody else. No credit? They went under, Webdesigner probably didn’t give a shit anyways. Big suprize.

Thanks for converting it, whoever you were, I’ll take my design back now, kthxbye. Oh, and PS, you didn’t make a complete theme you lazy ass,now I have to go on and finish it so the whole site looks right. No wonder you people went out of business, well, aside from that whole ‘we infect peoples computers with enough adware and spyware to make the trojan horse look like a my little pony.’ thing you had going on.

I might make a version of the prompt theme from the ketnar.org site and drag it over here, i like that theme, dunno why, I had alot of fun making it and its got the whole *nix..console..thing…whatever,going on.

I’ll move on from that and on to something much more fun. I’ve finaly taken a little time to setup a real website, I just don’t have time to write out pages manually anymore..Hell, I’m probably so far behind on the *ML standards right now it would be a nightmare anyways. so, in comes a content system. It’s not a nuke, thank god, its wordpress. I’m in love.

I’ll have some fun stuff up here soon, now that i’m not cranking out each and every little line of code by hand. Man, wow, my own personal ‘blog’, my bitching and rating at the world at large and its large worldly idiots, and project logs, photographs, whatever else I feel like posting. like..Uhm..random naked pictures of your dear and beloved family members, yeah.

Whatever - just wait, I’ll do something neat, I promise….just after I install a spell checker on this thing, jesus. Aspell anyone? C’mon..