the reality tunnel

I found out last night that I had forgotten to turn off new blog registration on my Wordpress Mu instance and that over 500 spammers had created new blogs on my site.  The admin interface allows you to bulk delete blogs but requires that you check the checkbox next to each blog to select it [...]

I finished wiring up my hacked USB game controller and made an updated version of my HID SooperLooper Controller PureData patch.  It might be a good reference for working with HID and OSC in PureData.

I’ve been playing around with Drupal for work and wanted to use mod_auth_kerb to authenticate Drupal users. The Webserver Auth module seemed helpful, but only worked in Drupal 4. I got the module working with Drupal 5.5 running on Apache 2.2.3 using mod_auth_kerb 5.1.
Link to my patch to make webserver_auth-4.7.x-1.x-dev work with [...]

Helping out with the AMC website, I threw together a quick Drupal 4.7 module (haven’t tested it on newer version of Drupal yet) to export user profile data generated by the profile module to a CSV file suitable for import into a spreadsheet program.
UPDATE: After searching the Drupal website, I realized that someone had already [...]

So Pages to Prisoners sells books that seem somewhat valuable and probably won’t get requested by folks in prison on Half.com as a fundraiser.  All proceeds go into supplies and postage for the project.  We get a lot of books sometimes, and I wanted to streamline the price lookup process.  So, I made a MyCroft [...]

My paid job is doing tech-support work and I often have to convey information to users over the phone.  To make sure we’re on the same page with spellings, I use the NATO phonetic alphabet.  But, I can never remember certain letters.  One solution would be to just remember the NATO alphabet.  Or, I could [...]