You know Lego does a lot of collabos, they even just released a Toy Story series (more on that later).
Being that it is winter and all, thought it appropriate to post some of their Lego – Empire Strikes Back items.
This was from set “7749 Echo Base“
I ♥ Exploring
- I want to be as worldly as the web but without all the clutter.
I ♥ Comments
Saw this article titled “As Toyota stumbles, schadenfreude lurks” and thought, “what the hell does schadenfreude mean?”
So, went and did a quick look up and found it on dictionary and, well, realized I don’t use that word enough, I forgot it way back when, or I am just dumb.
Either way, now you know so you can use it on a going-forward basis.
For those that are familiar with drifting you probably heard that Atsushi Kuroi passed away recently.
Besides watching him in Drift Club, Doriten and Option videos, I was able to actually meet and enjoy some meals together.
I remember Takatori telling me that he was “bully” and others explaining his sticker to me, “His name means black, but his car is yellow.”
Watching him try to take out Kazuya Bai at Meihan was such a good time, even for Bai.
So, for those that had the priviledge of spending more time with him and the honor of getting a ride along, consider yourselves lucky.
You will be missed, Cool Roy!
Online tribute at Nori Yaro.
I have a client that is international but they did not want/need to offer multuple lanugage content for the user, they would just write it accordingly.
But, they have various content writers from several countries so to ease use of Wordpress, they should have it in their preferred language. I found Kau-Boy’s Backend Localization Plugin.
I installed it and got an undefined error on line 175. Did some research and found out that one, the host the client is on is old! Two, the plugin used PHP 5 functions which due to the host, obviously doesn’t work. Same thing with the latest WP designed for MySQL 5+… Did I mention the host is old!!!
Anyways, on to the code.
This is the trouble area using PHP 5 functions such as scandir and get file property ‘extension’.
$files = scandir(WP_LANG_DIR);
foreach($files as $file){
$fileParts = pathinfo($file);
if($fileParts['extension'] == 'mo' && (strlen($fileParts['filename']) <= 5)){
$backend_locale_array[] = $fileParts['filename'];
}
}
Replace above with the PHP 4 fix. You may be able to remove $fileParts['extension'] as it may actually not be doing anything in this usage.
/* php 4 fix */
$dir = WP_LANG_DIR;
$dh = opendir($dir);
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
$files[] = $filename;
}
/* read the array */
foreach($files as $file){
$fileParts = pathinfo($file);
if(!isset($fileParts['filename']) && $fileParts['extension'] == 'mo' && (strlen($fileParts['filename']) <= 5)){
$fileParts['filename'] = substr($fileParts['basename'], 0,strpos($fileParts['basename'],'.'));
$backend_locale_array[] = $fileParts['filename'];
}
}
I thought all actual utensils on planes were now plastic. Forks, sporks, spoons and knives… especially on flights bound to the U.S.
Well, I guess a few airlines aren’t as concerned, like Luftansa. When you think about it, anything can almost be improvised into something – thanks MacGyver!
This actually makes sense. It’s more cost effective. Less environmental impact. And the utensils actually work without bending or breaking.
I find instructional illustrations very interesting and more often than not, a bit humorous.
I got a chuckle out of the moving walkway signs at the München airport. To me it says is you are cool, stand to the right. If not, stand to the left.
Also, if you have eneven lengthed legs, stand to the left.
Catch the illustration on the left as well.
I think everyone around the world knows that Germans love beer.
If you are ever at München, you will find the gift store filled with beer steins. This was only one side of the store mind you.
I spot a boot stein, wonder if they have the boot mug?
Here are some photos from my layover at München (Munich). I flew a regional carrier for Lufthansa and then Lufthansa back to Chicago. I was somewhat surprised about the free beer and wine service even from the regional – I guess it is Germany after all.
Nice to stop here instead of Frankfurt, just because it is smaller and not such a hassle to get from one terminal to another. But, security was busy as they had checks right at the gate and thankfully I got there ahead of the big rush which actually caused about a 30 minute delay for departure.
Our room for New Years had a great view overlooking the Royal Palace, Oslo.
In the far background you can even see the lights outlining a cruise ship.
A cold night in overlooking Trosterud on the outside of Oslo. In the background near the top of the other side of the valley is a ski hill to the right and a ski jump to the left.
The cold explains why the picture is a bit blurry.