Collins’ Onovia

The default thumbnail size for Wordpress is just ridiculous. It’s to small to realy see what exactly the image is. Changing the default thumbnail size is unfortunately not in the Wordpress options.

Following these easy steps, you can change this:

into this:

1. Open

   wp-admin/admin-functions.php

2. Find (as of 2.12 this is on line 2118)

   $max_side = apply_filters( 'wp_thumbnail_max_side_length',
   128, $attachment_id, $file );

3. Change to

   $max_side = apply_filters( 'wp_thumbnail_max_side_length',
   256, $attachment_id, $file );

4. Save and upload the file.

These easy steps will double the thumbnail size. You may adjust the altered number to a size of your choice, however 256 will probably be perfect for any theme.

Over the past few days I’ve noticed a lot of “botted” friend requests. These are requests that are not made by a person, but by a program. Apparently, the creator of this bot was gearing up for today. Around 10:18AM EST, I started getting these friend requests.

But this time, they were coming in one every 40 seconds. I thought, wow… imagine, with the amount of profiles on MySpace.com, all the friend requests happening right now! I proceded to the website to delete the requests. Itry to log in, and there’s a timeout. I try again and it times out again. So, I wait a minute and try again. This time, I’m presented with a generic “Sevice is to busy” message. This tells me that MySpace is being flooded with friend requests, logins, and outbound emails! After 10 minutes, the crew at MySpace finaly disabled logins, and put up this prety message for it’s users.

I was praying for catastrophic hardware failure and an electromagnetic bomb to wipe out the backups. But, as usual my prayers went unanswered, and they will be back in a while. Boohoo.

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that GMail’s spam filter has been missing these spam emails sent from officials in foreign countries. In particular, South America. Anyone that falls for these emails is a fool. Take a look at this form letter that I just got overnight.

First, the email is not addressed to anyone. Surely, if you have $850,000 for me, you’d address your email to me. Second, within the 10 seconds it took for Mrs Amina Abiola to copy and paste her spam message to me, her secretary went from a lady to Mr Eddy Douglas. Third, I’ve received at least 50 of these over the past few months. If I was to tally up all the money I’ve inherited, I’ve be richer than Bill Gates.

Anyways, dont fall victim to one of these scammers. Thy will eventually ask you to send just a few hundred dollars for “processing fees”, and run with it.

Tonight I had the opportunity to watch 300. I must say that the movie was good. But, at the same time I can say that it could have been a lot better. The plot was great, but like most movies today, seemed to be cut short. The action scenes were amazing, with some really cool camera work. I definitely would recommend you see the movie!

I feel like I’m on dialup today!! After noticing that my internet connection wasn’t up to par, I started to investigate. I checked for running programs that might be uploading data…. none. I checked the router/modem lights to see if data was actually being transmitted…. none. I run a trace route half way across the country… damn…

Yes, the it’s the end of the internet as we know it.

I made a quick and easy PHP script for those of you that use the Admin Icons SQL plugin for amxmodx. The first release was quite simple, and looked ugly. This ones a bit spiffed up, and has a login for security. The only thing you need to modify is the settings in config.php. Report any problems and make requests with a comment. The file is attached to the post.

Features:
- Cookie based authentication
- Add, delete, and edit icon entries

TODO:
- Create an installer
- Create an importer for icons.cfg

What a sight eh? According to CNN, the eclipse was “Partly visible on every continent, residents of Europe, Africa and the Middle East had the best view of the phenomenon, weather permitting.”