So, out of boredom I guess, I made a fortune cookie website. I’ve had the idea to start a fortune cookie business for about 3-4 years now, but I clearly don’t have the capital to do it, and Rachel also likes to point out the fact that I do have other things going on. Anyway, if I can’t have the business (which would be awesome. I’ve got some great ideas) I’ll settle for this website for now. Somehow, this way it feels like I’m still making progress. www.timwylie.com/fortune. It didn’t take me very long to put it together, so you’ll just have to get over any rough edges. I am in the middle of a lot of homework, projects, and research right now.

On another note, I bought a treadmill. Then I made a laptop stand for it so I can work and exercise. It’s been extremely cool. I’ve now been getting in over an hour of exercise while working every night. Here’s a picture!

Not that anyone here uses it, but there’s a new version of my xanga to wordpress script available. Xanga has been monkeying around with their URL scheme so my script had to change a bit. Now it works as awesome as ever.

Well, that’s the quick update. Back to work I go.

I’ve finally finished the glove mouse I started months ago. It works well and fits comfortably, and it kind of has that cool powerglove robot feel. As it should.

Visit the full page on my website.

So, I haven’t really updated anyone on what I’ve been doing project-wise. This is partially because a lot has been going on(some of which I’ll write later), but I decided I would show you what I’ve done in the last week.

I sewed myself a wallet because I wanted something specific.

Then, I decided to enter a baby shoe contest…I still haven’t made my shoe for the contest yet, but I did finally put together some baby mocassins from a kit I’ve had for quite some time.

And last night I finally decided to finish my glove mouse. I still haven’t attached it to the glove yet, but here is a picture of the finished electronics. It’s curved because that’s where it wraps around the back of your hand. The bottons on top are accessible via your thumb, and the scroll wheel rests right under your index knuckle.

So that’s that. I also set up a new installation of Xubuntu for our home computer. I will be installing mythtv as well. I’m finally getting around to combining about 12 different harddrives into one place for our data, and then having two different backup harddrives. Also, anyone want to buy an old harddrive?

Okay, in the move to dreamhost I finally got rid of the massive quicktime videos. Now the cube page has embedded flash videos hosted at youtube. You’re welcome.

I have moved servers from rackspace to dreamhost. The move was pretty smooth. I had to set up wordpress again, then manually edit the config files and import the database. Not too bad, however, wordpress usually uses absolute paths so some links or files may not be correct. I couldn’t find any, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Anyway, welcome to my new home. I know, it looks the same, but really it’s much cooler…..also more expensive, but what are you going to do? Nothing, because it’s my site.

Well, I finally took some time and added pages on my website for the fortune cookie machine, the hand mouse, and the vacuum forming machine. I cleaned the site up in a few places as well. I’m sure you’re all very excited. If the pages seem a little lackluster, well, that would be because it’s 1:30 a.m. and I just wanted to put something up. So, feel free to revel in the mediocrity.

There was a bug in the comment loading and saving. Also, I changed the saving and loading format so this wouldn’t happen anymore, so the older saved versions won’t work. They can be converted easily though by doing this:

rebol[]
posts: reduce load %posts.r
foreach post posts[post/comments: reduce post/comments]
save/all %posts.r posts

I’ll post the linux executable when I’m at my home computer.

It seems there may be some issues with the xanga application now. I haven’t had time to fully investigate yet, but some people have reported that it’s only doing the first page and I verified the issue. When I have time, I’ll fix it. Please let me know if you’re in desperate need of this, so I’ll know to fix it asap.

UPDATE: It works again. Whatever xanga changed was not permanent and the application is functional.

I modified the style sheet for this deep brown background and grey text so it would be easier to read. I like it.

I wrote a xanga to wordpress exporter in rebol. It takes any xanga site and parses all the posts and comments. It has several other features and it works great. I also wrote a gui to wrap the script. The binaries and source files are available. The windows binary will be uploaded monday because I don’t have windows at home so I’ll build it at work.