Monthly Archives: February 2005

Urban Dictionary

“Define your world” at Urban Dictionary. They even have images to illustrate some of the definitions. I like the one for stfu.

CSS Playground

The CSS Playground has some pretty amazing stuff, all done with CSS.

It's Working

Comment left by a spammer today…
I don’t think your site is working.

Review: Killer Poker Online

I’ve read some columns by John Vorhaus online and enjoyed what I read. His book, Killer Poker Online: Crushing the Internet Game, is a completely different story. The book is a waste of time and money. I’m glad a friend bought the book for me or I would have been very disappointed in the read.
I [...]

Lack of Personal Updates

You may have noticed a lack of personal updates here at the MDV. Seriously, there really hasn’t been much exciting going on, but here’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of days.

Review: AVP – Alien Vs. Predator

I’ve watched Predator and the Alien movies, so when I had heard about AVP I knew I’d watch it, but wasn’t all that excited.
When I watched AVP earlier this week I was very satisfied with the film. Whoever came up with the story did a wonderful job of bringing the two different creatures together [...]

New Book on the Way

Last night on UB I turned my 3,200 Ultimate Points into 4,600 playing a no-limit points table, just enough to order Zen and the Art of Poker, a book I’ve wanted for several months.

Feeling Comfortable Again

I’m starting to feel comfortable again at the tables. Earlier today I played for a few hours on Party again, but with much better results. I’m feeling good playing 4 tables of $1/2 6-max, so I think I’m going to stick to it for awhile.
I eliminated the tilt factor completely today. Sure, I took my [...]

Archive Inspiration

The archives at the WP development blog look a lot like MDV Archive, or more specifically, the old MtDewVirus Archives system, which allowed linking to the year archive. I wonder if my archives were inspiration or if they actually use my code.

WordPress Fights Spam

As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well.
One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have [...]

Back at Party

With Party’s redeposit bonus I couldn’t resist switching back over from UB. After making my deposit the bonus didn’t show up in my account, so I had to contact customer support this morning. I’m happy to say they fixed the problem in a few minutes. I’m going back to the $1/2 6-max tables at Party, [...]

Back to the Grind

Last night after work I decided to step back into the ring. I had some cash left in my UB account so I sat down at two $1/2 6-max tables. It was more of the same. Suckouts everywhere. They are causing me to go on tilt. I see tilt coming, but it’s too late. This [...]

Fight the Spam

Last night I deactivated the WP Hashcash plugin here and at 2 Hole Cards to see how it goes. As of right now, the only spam plugin I have activated is my moderate trackback plugin. We’ll see how the spam prevention measures that are built into WordPress do.

WP 1.5 Times 2

Just upgraded 2 Hole Cards to the latest and greatest blogging software the web has to offer. I’m diggin’ WP 1.5 more and more each time I play around with. And finding out more about how it works too!

Using WordPress 1.5

The site is now using WordPress 1.5, the latest and greatest version of the best blogging software the web has to offer. I’ve added a contact form, which can be accessed in the Navigation section on the right or by clicking my name in the footer. You won’t notice much different around the site, but [...]

I'm a White Guy

I accidentally bought a loaf of wheat bread last week. It only took a few days to reinforce the fact that I’m a white bread guy.

Answers.com

Answers.com boasts “The best definitions and explanations for over 1 million topics.” It’s different from Google and I know I’ll get some use out of it. For instance, search Google for “poker” and you get a list of web sites related to poker, but if you search Answers for “poker” you get a definition, encyclopedia [...]

Pink Bunny Poker Auction

As if Save Toby wasn’t bad enough, now we have the Famous Pink Bunny Poker Auction on eBay. Starting bid is $150,000.

I Code

Today was the first day in a long time that I didn’t want to leave work at 4:30. I’ve been coding a program for the past week and because of the short work day I didn’t get time to work on it until almost 4:00. I was just getting into the zone and found out [...]

Trackback and Pingback Moderation Updates

I’ve updated the plugins for moderating pingbacks and trackbacks. They now work like I should have first created them. The PB or TB is set to moderate before being committed to the database. This eliminates my query to the database and it also allows WordPress to send you the correct email message. The latest version [...]