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A social spree!

Since social networking is hip and cool. Apparently it’s the way and the light. So i guess i should adapt.

So, everyone! Quick! Abuse this weakness in my defenses and add me on facebook! It’s here: http://www.facebook.com/adegans.

Also add me on GoogleTalk. It’s adegans@gmail.com! (Don’t email me there though, i won’t read it!)

Yay… I think.

Pleasantries of a plugin release

I make plugins for WordPress so people like me, sometimes. Until they break, then my forum is crawling. Some even find their way into my IM accounts.

And, well… What can i say –

Not me: “yo!”
Me: “hi”
Not me: “Your plugin is broken! Help!”
Me: “i don’t do support via IM, go to my forum http://forum.at.meandmymac.net”
Not me: “But you must help me!”
Me: “i will, on the forum”

And he, i assume it’s a he, just stops talking and someone with a similar name registers shortly after on my forum.

Not me: “How can i use your plugin on my site?”
Me: “what plugin, i have more than 10″
Not me: “uh…”
Silence
Me: “well? Events or AdRotate?”
Not me: “the one for ads”
Not me: “Adrotator for wordpres”
Me: “AdRotate”
Not me: “How do i use it?”
Not me: “Hello??”
Me: “did you read the manual?”
Not me: “no”
Me: “try that first, http://meandmymac.net/plugins/adrotate/2/”
Not me: “Can’t you help me?”
Me: “i just did, besides i don’t do support via IM, says so on my contact page”
Not me: “You’re a twat”

I don’t see how i’m a twat. Am i? Perhaps i am. After all, he demanded help and i told him to read my manual. But hey, he didn’t introduce himself. Rude!

Not me: “Hello”
Me: “hi”
30 minutes later
Not me: “i like your site”
Me: “cool, which one did you look at”
Not me: “yours”
Me: “meandmymac.net?”
Not me: “your blog”
Me: “…”
Me: “ok”
20 minutes pass, i attempt for a conversation
Me: “so what’s up”
Not me: “?”
Me: “You started a conversation like 45 minutes ago, you must have something to say”
After about an hour, ‘not me’ goes offline

Useless sod! Leave me alone!

Sadly these conversations are all real. None of those people i know a name, sex, or anything specific about. Not that *really* i mind that. Chat is fun, i think. But please… this is horrible. Make an effort people!

acknowledgement!

From #wordpress

jeremyclarke: italia321: try the wp-pro list
zhrance: don’t know SHRIKEE you seems to be some kinda wordpress pro
SHRIKEE: zhrance: heh
SHRIKEE: thanks
italia321: SHRIKEE: interested?
SHRIKEE: no, just curious

I guess i am a bit of a pro, in some sense… But not really, i think… Just someone making plugins.

Bots are dumb…

Thus reproductive features must not be activated. This one has none what-so-ever.

Vincent: SHRIKEE: Error: "fucking" is not a valid command.
jinsgirl4eva: rofl
danhm: haha
SHRIKEE: LOL
nutelLA: haha
Trevpotle: hahaa
Kadaj: hahahhaa
bit: hahahhaha
SHRIKEE: he cannot fornicate
SHRIKEE: OWNED
* jinsgirl4eva high fives vincent

Which is good. Since it’s quite stupid

Linkinus service messages handled the right way!

So i’ve been struggling with it for a while now. Every time i log in to a IRC network Linkinus opens a bunch of queries with the replies of the various services and other crappy bots that roam around on the channels there. Telling me i’m logged in or what they can do to make my life “easier” and so on.

Today i got fed up with closing those queries so me and some guys on the #linkinus channel went to set things up for me the right way. They suggested that any login command to nickserv would be run with /smsg instead of /msg.

So where i used:

/msg nickserv identify password ******

I now use:

/smsg nickserv identify password ******

This means no queries get opened from my side. However when the bot or service replies success or failure it still opens that query. This was after some poking in the linkinus preferences solved by redirecting any reply to the console.

Check the 3 checkmarks inside the red area. To redirect any stuff to the console. And voila! No rubbish queries anymore!