UserTracker V1.0 Update!

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I am happy to announce version 1.0 of my userTracker plugin. This new plugin adds the dashboard stats page. Which you can see here

The new features here are the dashboard with pagination, and filtering by user. The filter drop down will also show you how many entries are in the DB for each given user. I have also made the username and the page name URLs to the user’s profile and to the page viewed.

Some upcoming additions will be:

  • Sorting by date, username, page, and IP
  • How long to keep entries, IE: database pruning
  • Controlling how many entries you see on a page
  • Additional information about the users, including referring page, and user agent
  • NsLookup for IP

If you have any other suggestions, please let me know!

You can download version 1.0 from the WordPress plugin directory here also, please view my other plugins here.

A Starfish in the Front Yard

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I’ve had this song tucked away in my music collection for years, but never really listened to it. Apparently someone named Chris Ayer sings it, but I downloaded it as part of a Stanford musical collection. It came up on my party shuffle today and caught my ear, so I thought I’d post it…

I saved this song for a rainy day
and I think we’re gonna be okay
cause I’ve got nothing witty left to say
just to stand around and talk about the weather

the fingerpicking changes to slap-pluck style
and we know, that there’s no sense in so much arguing
the world is ending, and no one’s listening
’cause we’ve things between you and me, and god it seems
that everything is always stuck between what’s really happening
and then our voices hit and it’s just “ohh”
and that’s the price of it, and it’s just “ohh”
and everyday that it goes away, and it’s like we say, and it’s not okay
and all we’re left with here today is one last “ohh”

this song is easier than it probably seems,
but in my life, I’ve said a lot of things that I don’t mean
to try and win you over, to try to know my dreams,
and some of the lies that I tried to hide, well their hidden still from me

and there’s a starfish in the front yard, yeah
and he’s sitting there talking ’bout the way, how on a rainy day
even starfish wind up in the front yard, talkin’ how the road was hard
that brought him from the ocean to our lawn on Ambar Way

and then our voices hit and it’s just “ohh”
we’re gonna pay the price of it tonight “ohh”
and there he’s lying there and dying, air is drying out his hide
I think I see a starfish smiling, crying out “ohh”

Come with me down to the sea, by santa cruz
and we can float on funnel cakes, and drown ourselves in booze
sitting in a motel 6, but we’ll never leave the room
we’re singing about those secret things that keep these songs in tune

and then our voices hit and it’s just “ohh”
we’re gonna pay the price of it tonight “ohh”
and everyday that it goes away, and it’s like we say, and it’s not okay
and all we’re left with here today is one last “ohh”

I saved this song for a rainy day
and I think we’re gonna be okay
cause I’ve got nothing witty left to say
just to stand around and talk about the weather

Zencart User Integration – UPDATE!

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I am pleased to announce the second release of my zencart user integration plugin.

This second release addes a few small features.
1) Lost password recovery. The previous plugin had an error where if a user clicked the “lost password” in zen cart the password associated with the account in wordpress would not be updated.
2) Change password. The previous release did not update passwords correctly when a user changes the password.

Go and download the newest plugin here.

Running with Scissors: A Memoir

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Ok, so this was the third in a series of books Constantine and I were to read together. As we all know…

Running with Scissors, a messed up name, for a messed up book! An EXCELLENT messed up book! I was utterly horrified at what this guy went through in his childhood, but could not stop laughing at all the insanity that followed.

A Spot Of BotherThe book is about Augusten from the ages of 13-16. His mother, who seems to have bi-polar and one wacked out therapist who should probably have been put in a mental hospital long ago. His mother begins spending days at a time with Dr. Finch and Augusten gets very upset at his home situation. The author goes form a sterile and clean home where everything has to be his mother’s way to a pink house where the Christmas tree stays all year long; there is dust and mayhem, pets, broken furniture, and a bunch of really intense characters. Augusten goes form worrying about his hair being perfect and his clothes immaculate to living with the shrink and his family, drinking and smoking and not going to school.

For three years the reader gets a glimpse into the life and evolution of Augusten, his trials and tribulations, the rocky family situation as his mother starts dating again and his father not accepting his collect calls, the weird pink house as his safe heaven except where everything gets too crazy and he has to go back to his moms house to relax and recoup. His intense first relationship with a much older man who is fragile and intense at the same time and the funny hair analogies that Augusten would sneak in for some comic relief.

This is another book I would HIGHLY suggest reading!

I got the movie in the mail the other day from netflix, but sadly it was unplayable! :’( Hopefully I will get the replacement on Saturday so I can let you know how that is.

UPDATE:// So I just watched the movie running with scissors and I was very let down. They compressed a few LARGE parts of the book into a single 15 minute section of the movie, they changed some of the most mundane things. IE: “Give me a shoe horn” whereas the book says “Give me a spatula”. Just stuff like that which was very annoying. And the whole kitchen ceiling thing. Hello! They tore down the ENTIRE ceiling, not just a little hole! Ugh!

It’s a GOOD movie, don’t get me wrong, but it’s of course does not live up to the book.