Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

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Here you’ll find quite a few aspects of my geeky existence. I’ve got software available, primarily for MacOS X and BSD UNIX variants; an open “blog styled” diary, an oekaki (doodle board) to draw on, a forum for public discussion and support regarding software I’ve written or por...

Below follows a small script to convert your QuickBlog date data to UNIX timestamp. You’ll have to execute the sql statements yourself. It’ll print out what you need to do. Sorry, I just don’t feel ‘safe’ entirely automating this you can change the echo to a mysql_query() if you feel the need.

Aft...

I’ve enhanced the ‘archive’ search function – it now also returns data based on day, as well as the general year/month search.

I’m also working on a new calendar function – it’s fully dunctional, but I dunno if I’ve got the patience to figure out all of the CSS required to make it not /need/ a sta...

all work and no play...

I need a break. It’d be most preferable were it not an arm or leg.

I know that security\s never been a big part of MacOS X, but some things are just bad. I mean, real bad. First of all, it\s possible for anyone to run nidump. This is just bad coding. This also isn\t news. It\s been reported a billion times by now.

%nidump passwd .
nobody:*:-2:-2::0:0:Unprivilege...

In a few short weeks, I’ve gone from nearly-XHTML compliant to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, all the way around (at least, with my external toolset) to XHTML 1.1.

I don’t really like the web, per-se, with all of the cruft and annoying things it has, but XML is starting to seduce me – I’ve used it otherw...