Notions

Version 1.2 of the Google Calendar Widget Plugin now adds an option to allow you to expand the event entries automatically, without clicking on them.

More info here

I have created a Wordpress plugin that installs a widget for showing an agenda view from one or more Google Calendars in the sidebar. Version 1.1 is now live.

Read more about it and download it from here

The Blogger Image Import Wordpress plugin that I wrote some time ago is getting a bit old and has some issues with the newer blogger structure.

People have continued to use this plugin, and some have even made suggestions on how to fix it in the comments of that page.

I have collected some of that information here if anyone is still interested in using this plugin. I do not have time to update the plugin, but I am happy to include fixes that others have made to it.

There are two main issues that I know of now.

1. The domain on which the images are hosted is not constant. It has changed over time from blogspot.com to blogger.com
2. The links to the full size images are actually links to html pages that contain the image

Some commenters have pointed out some solutions. Those are

1. Run the script once with the image server domain set to blogspot.com and again with it set to blogger.com. Ultimately, it would be best if the script were updated to support both, or possibly any other domain as there is no reason to restrict it to just those two, but then it might import images that were intended to be linked.
2. If the name of the image contains “s1600-h” remove the “-h” and convert it to “s1600″ when importing. It seems that Blogger is currently storing the images at those locations.

Here is a link to a version of the script that was sent to me by JT and described on the comment page

blogger-image-import.zip

I have not tested it, so use it at your own risk, but it looks good and shows the changes that were made to the original. Look for “MODIFIED:” comments in the script for a description of the changes.

I welcome any updates that people make to improve the script. If you find any issues, or fix the existing issues better, please let me know and send a copy of your fixes so we can share them with others.

CSLua is a pure C# library for interfacing to the Lua 5.1 Windows DLL. It supports the core Lua API and includes a C# class wrapper for binding C# objects from Lua script.

I have posted a page for CSLua at the link below. This includes the full Visual Studio 2008 (I use express edition, but any version should work) test solution and library project. It can be used as stand-alone source or build the managed DLL from the project.

http://notions.okuda.ca/csharpprojects/cslua/

Report the suspicious, not the strange?

I am posting this from the train station where I took this photo. Translink and the RCMP have been running a set of ads recently where they show silly situations that do not need to be reported to the police. However, for the most part, the “real” situations have been pretty criminal. Seriously? Taking photographs is now a suspicious behaviour?

If you wish to comment, please consider using Reddit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/8yziu/wtf_translink/.