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Been spending my days working hard to save money (woo hourly) as well as making lists of things I’m supposed to do, plus a nice weekend with Tomo and Jo & co. and flying out to Dallas this weekend to visit family. We’re planning on driving out to Austin for a day too, but now we’re running into the problem of not enough weekends to visit everyone - I’m not sure how I’m going to see my dad anytime soon, what with the roadtrip the following weekend(s) and the weekend before I leave being definitely in a non-moving state.

In case you’re wondering what I have to do before going, here’s a to-do list from a little app I like called remember the milk. This doesn’t include my “everyday” work like cooking, etc., or my 40-hr-week-total 3 jobs. Speaking of which I found out last night that my boss at my local job had found out this past friday that he was fired effective today. Disconcerting.

Also in case I don’t get around to finishing my list of items for Mongolia, here’s another, more brief, list of those items. I tried to prioritize these by how much I *really* need to obtain em.

Also randomly, I will be delivering Rob’s bike back to Mequon during previously-mentioned long road trip.

Tags: mongolia

Title mostly says it all. I needed to make a plugin for Bonnie’s site to use a decent blog (Moodle’s blog system just isn’t cutting it) plus using data from already-registered users. You essentially set up a limited access account to your external db and enter the details into this plugin’s options. There’s also an option to give a custom error message in case of invalid login/pw combinations - in our case it will inform the user that they need to create an account first at the moodle site then come back to login.

We’re planning to combine this with a default user role of author/editor-ish (author with category management permissions, preferably) so that we get the same general functionality of Moodle’s blogs plus comments, better management, RSS, etc. This is my first plugin and I tried to follow general layout conventions of wordpress - hope it works for others, too.

It’s hosted on Wordpress under External Database Authentication. About the only update I may think of doing is somehow disabling users from changing passwords and user info in wordpress, as it will be overwritten by the moodle data anyway…

Tags: DIY, ext_db_auth

I couldn’t help it:

Tags: media, words

Bonnie’s friend Alison helped get these guys to come to Georgia Tech…cuz Alison (who also works at the library) knows them! Weird…

My favorite word: Maaaaaaaaaar-zi-pan!

Tags: librarians, media

It’s youtube, but oh well. I want this song! I hope others appreciate it

Haunted Love’s first music video

Tags: librarians, media