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There have been several "hacks" for vBulletin that allowed revenue sharing of ads shown through Google's AdSense program. First there was a hack from AlexanderT, then one from a fellow named "cinq" who has since fallen off the planet, and just today I found one from "webmastershome". There's also a $150 option from Steve Fleming, but I have several professional issues with Mr. Fleming's approach (not the least of which is his apparent lack of knowledge of the several free albeit outdated options available).

I PMed AlexanderT and was told that, when he upgraded to vBulletin 3.6.0 (he's still using 3.1.x), he'd likely update his hack and make it available to all. That still put me in a bind.

vBulletin disallows use of PHP in templates, making this whole thing a total pain. phpinclude_start and phpinclude_end seemed like valid solutions, but I wasn't sure how they'd work, and setting the variables before I even knew who had posted seemed silly.

I came up with a simple JavaScript solution I hope works. It's below.

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Are kids these days - high school kids - so different from when I was in school 10-12 years ago? Apparently they were. Yesterday, having called a penalty on a kid on the golf team I assistant coach, I was both flipped off and sworn at. Then the kid failed to accept the penalty.

After the coach had a talk with the kid, he apologized, but come on! The ways in which kids have changed since even a short while ago is appalling.

P.S. I just noticed that I wrote something else called "Kids These Days" last year about the golf team. It's here.

Question: Open Disk Utility. Select your main disk. Look at "Number of Files" at the bottom. What does it say?

My Answer: 667,836.

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Question: How often, if ever, do you listen to the "Radio" in iTunes?

My Answer: I used to listen to it at work (@ Apple) quite frequently, but I never bother anymore. I have 10,000+ songs of my own to listen to. I should, though, to discover new music.

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According to this link, there will be 27 Wii launch titles. I only care about a few of them: Rayman Raving Rabbids, Madden NFL 07, and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. And I'm not even sure I care much about the last one.

Granted, I'm not sure what some of the games are. I know "Red Steel" is big, but I haven't read up on it. "Wii Sports" sounds like a demo title, not an actual game. GT Pro Series may be fun, but at launch, I'm going to look for titles that use the revolutionary control scheme, not ones that are best played with a wheel (as I imagine anything named "GT" would be).

The past two weeks, in the Sunday paper, we've received Boston Market coupons. Boston Market (for whom I used to work, and from whom I still received a 30% discount seven years after the fact in Florida because I still had my employee discount card) was in Erie until, oh, 1999 or so before KFC took over their building near the Barnes & Noble on Peach Street.

The Boston Market website doesn't show any Boston Markets within 50 miles of Erie. One week may be a mistake, but two weeks of coupons seems to indicate that a Boston Market is coming (back).

Is this true? If so, where?

I'd like to build an outdoor playhouse for my kiddo. I'm envisioning something I can build myself. I'm picturing a sand box below an upper floor (the actual "playhouse"), which would have walls and a ceiling, of course. Perhaps a slide would come out, perhaps a lower deck, and of course a ladder to get up into the playhouse.

I don't need (nor do we have the room for) a swingset off to the side. We have about 9' x 20' in the back yard for the playhouse.

These things seem to cost about $800-$1000. I'm thinking I can do it for a lot less. Has anyone done something similar? Are plans, materials lists, etc. available online somewhere (even if they cost money, though free would be ideal of course)?

Question: Now that WWDC is over, what's your biggest disappointment?

My Answer: The ship date. 😛

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My pinky fingers are permanently "bent." They are this way because the second bone in my pinky fingers is not quite fully formed (nor will it ever be). Because of this, the last little bone in my pinky fingers "leans" to the side.

According to my mom, my fingers were X-rayed and my doctor wrote something about me in the New England Journal of Medicine when I was a baby, though I've never bothered to look up the article.

I guess Apple isn't planning on too many system updates in the next, oh, eight months. We're already at 10.4.7 - which means they've got room for two major updates (10.4.8 and 10.4.9). After that, we'd have to start getting 104 MB "security updates." 🙂

Question: Do you get migraines? What are the symptoms?

My Answer: Not generally. Rarely I'll get a big headache, but I don't know that I'd call them a migraine. If some rest and an Aleve can clear it up, it's not a migraine.

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NFL Network is broadcasting pre-season games. Yay! Wait, football season is here already? What the heck?

Question: What was your favorite thing about WWDC 2006's keynote?

My Answer: I'll update my own answer after I've watched the thing. I forgot about it until now and, as can be expected, the stream is still painful to watch.

Update: I still haven't watched the keynote (and likely won't until tomorrow). I love iChat screen sharing. I love Time Machine. I love Spaces. I love the new developer tools.

Mail getting RSS doesn't change anything (it won't be good for managing more than a few feeds, just as Safari wasn't).

I don't like the ship date (but I kind of expected it). I don't like that there's only one tower.

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You have three boxes. One is red, one is yellow, one is green. You also have six unique rocks. How many ways can you put the six rocks in the three boxes if you must put two rocks in each box? Explain how you arrive at your answer.

Question: How long does it take you to fall asleep?

My Answer: Over 30 minutes in the summer, a bit less in the winter. I can't fall asleep if I'm too warm at all. Little One takes about an hour, and Carey's usually out before she's even tried to fall asleep. 😀

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