Archive for February, 2007
Winning Notification!!!!
Posted by Dylan in General Ramblings on February 8th, 2007
I am very excited, it seems I have won £4m in a lottery I didn’t even know I’d entered (or not).
From: Online Lottery Office <claimscatherinenola00@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Dylan
Subject: FEBURARY ONLINE WINNER…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Uk National Lottery
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
EnglandRef: UK/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (1155) of the U. K NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Sat 17th Jan 2007 “Your e-mail address” attached to ticket number:”56475600545 188″ with Serial number” 5368/02″ drew the lucky numbers: 12 . 17 . 21 . 25 . 31 . 37 . [30] Bonus Ball”which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. match 5. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of “£4,000.000.00 (Four Million Pounds Sterling)” in cash credited to file “KTU/9023118308/03.” This is from a total cash prize of £12,000,000″ shared amongst the (3) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over “100,000″ unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your of ” £4,000.000.00 (Four Million Pounds Sterling)” would be released to you by any of our “payment offices” in Europe.
“Our European agent” will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to “claim your prize”. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent below:
Catherine Nola(Mrs):Email : claimscatherinenola00@yahoo.co.uk
Sincerely,
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY Member Services
Sweepstakes International Program.
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I could really use the money — I replied…
From: Dylan
To: claimscatherinenola00@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: FEBURARY ONLINE WINNER…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HI!
THAT IS GREAT NEWS!!!!! I didn’t even realise I had entered!
Please tell me what I have to do to receive my winnings?!
Regards,
Dylan Reeve
WPMU: Premium Blogs
I’ve started writing a plugin for WPMU to allow the management of a ‘premium blog’ option that will control plugin availablity, disble ads and other things.
It’s a long way from done, but I figured I’d post my very early beta here for feedback. This represents only a few hours of work so far, so it has a long way to go, but hopefully you can get an idea of where I am going with it.
It currently consists of three files.
- premium-blog.php – to be placed in /wp-content/mu-plugins
- premium.php – to be placed in /wp-admin
- premium-plugins.php – to be placed in /wp-admin
Also, one line needs to be added to /wp-admin/plugins.php – it is detailed in the comments at the top of premium-plugins.php
In it’s current state it allows a site admin to define premium blogs (through the Site Admin -> Blogs -> Edit interface) and then can manage the plugins available to users (only the plugin management menu, if they are already activated it will not deactivate them).
It also offers the function premiumBlogs::isPremium() which can be called from a theme for example to conditionally include (or exclude) content (such as AdSense code or something).
My immediate plans include:
- Auto de-activate disallowed plugins from non-premium blogs.
- Allow ad management – define code to be used for ads, then simply call premiumBlogs::ad($id) to display that ad in a theme for non-premium blogs.
It should also be possible to make it set arbitary settings for premium blogs (larger upload space in conjuction with my Z-Space plugin perhaps?).
What else?
Download:
Premium Blogs – v0.1a
Z-Space Upload Quotas
Having just written the Total Upload Space Remaining v2.0 plugin, I suddenly decided I could do better.
So I’ve now written a new plugin that takes the place of both the Total Upload Space Remaining plugin, and the User Space plugin – allowing for one plugin to manage upload quotas on a per-blog basis, as well as provide a nicely configurable visual feedback to the blog admins.
Anyway, it’s available on WPMUDEV if you’re into that sort of thing.
Total Upload Space Remaining v2.0
As I am looking at using WPMU for an upcoming project, I have been looking through some of the plugins available for WPMU specifically.
One of the plugins I found useful was Total Upload Space Remaining by Dr. Mike, but I found it wasn’t compatible with the Upload Space plugin, so I addresse that to make the two play happily together.
Also, it wasn’t really visually right for me, and was reliant on images, which I felt was unnecessary for what it was doing (a basic bar graph).
My new version features a CSS-styled graph based on simple DIVs. It is also quite configurable.
It is available for download from the WPMU Project page:
Total Upload Space Remaining v2.0
Moved To Wordpress
Posted by Dylan in General Ramblings on February 3rd, 2007
I’ve moved blog things again.
This time it’s Wordpress, I may have been there before – currently I use Wordpress for Harrison’s site, and Mel uses it, and I’ve set it up in a few other places, so it figures that I should use.
Forgive the unoriginal theme – but I’ve been having some technical problems with Wordpress and it’s easiest to debug them when everything it pretty much standard.
I will migrate the content from my old site (and some other old content) here in the next little while.