Here's what I'm working on to improve the codebin:

1. Get a working update script. (easy) *** DONE 2/09 ***
--If you post an entry with a password, you can enter the password to revise your posting.

2. Make an email script. (easy) *** DONE - 2/14 ***
--If you post an entry with a password and an email address, you can have the password emailed to you, should you forget it.

3. Make a search feature. (difficult)
--Would be able to search by topic, type of code, poster...

4. Make links to types different types of code. (easy)
--Make a script that will get the latest posts from a certain type of code.

5. Stop bots from rating the scripts. (easy - I think!)
-- Search engines go to every link they find, and thus rate one script 8 times, leaving an average of 4.5. They do that to this blog too. Arrrggghhh!

Stay tuned for updates!

I have started a new project on February 1st called The Code-Bin.

It aims to be like http://pastebin.com but faster and cleaner. My version is also ad-free!

The current URL is http://stephen.calvarybucyrus.org/codebin/. Please visit and add your code!

Any comments, suggestions, constructive criticism? Please leave me a comment here at my blog.

Also, late-breaking information will be posted here first at my blog - http://stephen.calvarybucyrus.org/blog/.

Wiimote-related damage

We've already spotted a couple of TVs (Link 1 - Link 2) get taken down by flying Wiimotes due to either overzealous gameplay or a pretty weak-sauce wrist strap, although we're leaning toward the latter. Over the last few days we've seen household collateral damage due to the strap either breaking entirely or slipping off those wearers who haven't opted for some special gloves. Our latest updates include two busted straps, one of which took out reader Rafael M.'s iPAQ hx4700 (pictured) that had sat docked adjacent to the TV, but is now obviously not more. The second strap, captured on video by residents of Cambrian House in Calgary (and now immortalized on YouTube, check it out on the next page), shows that beyond the woven exterior appears to be an easily-broken, tiny cable (similar to a fishing line) that connects to the Wiimote itself. Further, a third gamer, Elliot G., told us that his Wiimote came tearing off of his wrist while playing and took out a nearby beer glass (fortunately the can of Boddingtons appears to have been spared, as shown after the jump). So guys: until Nintendo gets this problem fixed, or you come up with a way to reinforce that strap, please make sure your gameplay area is clear of anything valuable and breakable, such as your television.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/24/more ... -holidays/

Ice cream man convicted of selling pirated copies to kids

If only we'd thought of selling pirated DVDs, CDs, and PlayStation / Xbox / PC games out of the trusty Engadget ice cream truck to the impressionable youth we've long since been pushing sweets on, but alas that scam has apparently already landed one William Agnew in the slammer. Dude got busted and fessed up to selling such wares (warez?) by the truckful -- literally -- after being caught with four thousand pirated discs. So to all you would-be software copiers out there looking to get in on the racket, remember: intellectual property theft may well get you put away, so stick to the straight and narrow and just keep on peddling sweets to increasingly sedentary obese kids with type b diabetes, ok?

Source: http://gaming.engadget.com/2006/02/06/i ... s-to-kids/

Can you think of better ways to spend your time?!?

Philadelphia Man Memorizes Pi to 12,887 digits

Associated Press

UPPER DARBY, Pa., Jan. 24 For the math-challenged, remembering pi equals 3.14 is tough; now a Pennsylvania man has memorized pi to 12,887 digits.

Mark Umile, 40, a fling clerk from Upper Darby, figured the problem by hand, writing down the results 1,000 digits at a time -- and then memorized the number, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

I was really proud of him that he did it, his wife, Maryann, said. I can't remember a phone number.The world record for figuring pi is 67,890 digits and was set in China, but Umile's feat eclipsed the old North American record of 10,980., the Inquirer said. Umile, however, does hold the record for memorizing 905 digits of the mathematical constant e and the first 5,544 digits of the square root of two, the Inquirer said.

Source: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/23439.html