Category Archives: Site News

Ten

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

I started writing this blog exactly ten years ago. I had experimented with the earliest versions of blogger/blogspot from 2000, and registered cosmicbuddha.com on January 6 of that same year, but updated it manually until April 21, 2003. Then the … Continue reading →

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C. Buddha’s Great Android Experiment

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

After clearing my calendar for our October holidays, the extra work I was planning to do fell through. I’ve spent the extra time planning for a possible simian uprising, playing with Max and Mina every day, and creating an Android … Continue reading →

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name cheap

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

I just dumped Network Solutions for Namecheap because NetSol is too expensive and their site is crufty and pushes unnecessary features way too hard. Thus begins my 2012 domain name consolidation – I have one straggler (elearningrmu.info) registered at Go … Continue reading →

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Cockroach Reanimation at 2k views

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

My most popular YouTube vid, by far, is Cockroach Reanimation with Electro-stimulation, which just passed over 200,000 views. The viewing demographic is overwhelmingly 13-17 year old boys who like to point out that the cockroach “isn’t actually coming to life, … Continue reading →

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Jetpack Comments

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

You can now comment on this blog with your WordPress, Twitter, or Facebook account, if you so desire. Just start entering comment text under any post and the options to log in to the various services are displayed. Thanks.

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84 likes, 130 dislikes

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

In October of 2010, I uploaded a video about bringing a cockroach back to life with a bug zapper to YouTube. It only had a few thousand hits for the first year, but then suddenly took off probably due to … Continue reading →

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STP

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

Linking to that STP video in my last post got me to thinking… How could their music videos have been so bad when their recorded live sessions were so good? Their first two albums were so good, the diminishing returns … Continue reading →

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YouTube iframe embedding

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

It seems that the new way of embedding YouTube videos is really slow to render when you have multiple videos on a single page. Offhand, I can’t remember tweaking anything else that would cause this blog to be loading in segments like … Continue reading →

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Site Updates

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

I’ve updated our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Both Facebook app and Android market development make these necessary… More on this later.

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Holy crap, I love my new blog design

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

That is all. Oh wait, also:

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h4xx0r3d

Posted on February 19, 2011 by

My admin login for this blog either got corrupted or was intentionally changed by some script kiddie, so I need to purge everything and build it up again. My last backup is recent, from New Years Eve of last year … Continue reading →

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New Theme – Twenty Ten Weaver

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

In lieu of posting new content, I started playing with my blog’s appearance and settled on this new theme, Twenty Ten Weaver. Me likey. Still playing with colors and tweaking, but this is fun and today is one of the … Continue reading →

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Shoot up this page

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Speaking of games, click here to start a game of asteroids on this page (use arrow keys, space bar, and B). (via)

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C. Buda's Apresurada Reflexiones

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

What a wonderful sounding translation of my blog… Muchas gracias.

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C. Buda’s Apresurada Reflexiones

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

What a wonderful sounding translation of my blog… Muchas gracias.

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Get your own custom icon for comments on this blog

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

The icons (AKA avatars) that appear next to your name in the comments on this blog and many others is controlled by a company called Gravatar. If you sign up on their site, you can choose your own icon and … Continue reading →

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XFN Link for Buzz

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

Humans, please ignore this post. <link rel=”me” type=”text/html” href=”http://www.google.com/profiles/cosmicbuddha”/>

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Comments are working again

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

Now I need to figure out the Gravatar system. But not tonight. In the meantime, I’ve set the system to assign random ugly avatars to people without Gravatars. You’re welcome.

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WPMU: Final thoughts for the time being

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

WordPress Multi-user is not ready for the big time. This is evident from the fact that it’s not an option accessible from the WordPress GUI (it must be hard-coded by the user into a configuration file on the server). My … Continue reading →

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Further thoughts on WPMU (WordPress Multi-user)

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

I’m disliking the fact that I can’t specify a single upload directory (as opposed to a regular WordPress install). The uploads go into dated folders, which I dislike intensely. I dislike it so much, I may just go back to … Continue reading →

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