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I used Ourmedia.org to host it:

[...] free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.

(Their video embedding code is broken for all of the browsers on my Mac. Hopefully they should have it fixed soon. Here’s a direct link to the video.)

I wanted to display the dates of posts and comments using numbers for the day of the month like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. It wasn’t too tricky, but required a bit of tinkering.

Now, I’ve got a convoluted setup for this blog, but essentially it uses Movable Type for the admin and back-end, and the pages are displayed using Smarty, a PHP template engine. Smarty has a date formatting modifier that works just fine (a wrapper PHP’s strftime function), but unfortunately strftime doesn’t support ordinal suffixes, whereas PHP’s date function does.

So, I made a Smarty plugin that acts as a wrapper to the date function, you can get it here: modifier.phpdateformat.php.txt. The template syntax is {$variable|phpdateformat:'jS F'} (replace the jS F bit with any of the format characters used by PHP’s date function).

Tinkering project #2 – Put a GUI on my CD Wallet Label Generator.

I’ve recently been using CDFinder to catalog the backups and archives I’ve got on CD-ROM and DVD. I work making websites and CD-ROMs so over the years I’ve amassed quite a collection!

I’ve been giving each cataloged CD an index number (as a CDFinder comment), then filing the CD under that index number. I couldn’t find a suitable utility for printing lots of sequential index labels, so I knocked one together using PHP. (Yes, it did occur to me that I could just write them with a pen or pencil, but I wanted something neater and tidier – and more “formal”.)

Introducing Tim’s Simple CD (or DVD) Sleeve Index Generator. I use it for printing onto plain white paper CD wallets. It’s pretty much tailored for my individual needs, but it’s slightly configurable, so maybe someone else will find it useful too!

Update: just got spammed with lots of online-poker trackbacks, so trackbacks are now disabled.

MarsEdit makes weblog writing like writing email, with each post edited in its own window, the ability to save posts as drafts, spell-checking, and a familiar Mac OS X interface

As someone wise once said:

It’s the imagery of technology
Is what you get is what you see
Don’t worry your mind
When you give it your best
One two one two this is just a test

Current Server Load: 25
MacInTouch server loads above “50″ indicate the potential for slowdowns, while server loads approaching “100″ (or more) indicate slowdowns are likely. The heaviest demands occur during weekdays from about 10:30 to noon Eastern U.S. time, and during special Apple events.

It’s still a little wonky, and the design is a bit small (for performance reasons, mostly)

Nigel Pegg has a good demo of a Flash interface for (presumably) viewing/posting Movable Type comments: MT Comment FlashLet.

<ol>
<MTComments>
<li><$MTCommentBody$> [...] and $MTCommentSoOn</li>
</MTComments>
</ol>

The list would only work if the comment-count is bigger than one. I’ve had a quick look at Brad Choates MTIfEmpty plugin [via Google and the girlie matters]. Trouble comes if there are no comments, the best I could come up with was this:

<ol>
<MTIfEmpty expr="[MTComments]1[/MTComments]">
<li>There are not any comments for this post yet.</li>
</MTIfEmpty>
<MTComments>
<li><$MTCommentBody$> [...] and $MTCommentSoOn</li>
</MTComments>
</ol>

I think I’m missing something, there must be a better way?

Postscript: Fixed it, I was missing something — MTIfNotEmpty!