Fudgy McFarlen

Berry Yogurt Delight Shake Whip Smoothie

I am a single man and I eat like it.  I need easy to make recipes.  This one is fantastic especially after a run.

  • Measure out frozen fruit berry meddly into a tall glass – about 1.5 cups worth
  • Draw an amount of water on top of the fruit till the level is a little above the fruit – let this sit while you are grabbing a container of yogurt out of the fridge
  • Add a single portion container of fruit flavored yogurt to your blender – my fav is blueberry
  • pour the water / fruit into the blender
  • Add a banana if you want – ( try it both ways ! )

Whip up the mixture as little as possible.  The seeds in the raspberries get broken you'll have a seedy concoction.  I blend it very little and use minimum speed settings.

Just had one of these after a 2.5 mile run while I am sitting breathing oxygen from my oxygen concentrator.  Oooh baby.  This is good.

BTW: You will find that your bowel movements the next day are more healthy.  I know TMI but its true.

Hat Tip to Eric who turned me on to the recipe.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

WordPress WP-Latex Plugin for rendering Mathematics

I found another math rendering plugin refered to here: http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/04/10/latex-math-plugin-for-wordpress/

It is based on LaTeX.

Note To Self:  Kumara Sastry  appears to be an interesting an talented person.  He studies in the area of genetic algorithms.  An idea I have is to study talented people and make a blog and the subsequently a company based around these people. 

Easy LaTeX – author interesting blog to punch around also

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

How to write a wordpress plugin

I will be summarizing for myself on this page how to write a WordPress plugin.

My initial search on Google

WordPress PlugIn Skeleton Generator

Fun with Plugins makes some assumptions about file names and paths to resources.

It is assumes that your plugin file is located at: YOURBLOG/wp-content/plugins/wp_emarket/wp_emarket.php

It is assumes that your external Javascript file is located at: YOURBLOG/wp-content/plugins/wp_emarket/js/script.js

A Sample functioning Plugin that appears very simple

 Write your own plugin for Wordpress

A step by step for producing plugins

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

WordPress User Geo Location by IP Address Map Generation

http://blog.vimagic.de/ip-city-cluster-wordpress-plugin/

This plugin requires a statistics plugin to remember all the IP addresses.  The plugin maps the geo locations associated with this.

  1. Need to have a statistics plugin that remembers all the user IP addresses.   During configuration of the plugin you specify the database table and field name.   See screen shot below.
  2. The MaxMinds geo ip data base is here: http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity   You can import either binary or CSV list to your database.  The binary is said to be much faster compared with CSV  which may take up to a few seconds. 
  3. For #2 I need to convert to SQL because my ISP does not allow CSV lists to be imported. ( at one time they did )

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Oki 900 Analog Cell phone can be put into Scanner Mode

Power the phone up.  Wait for PowerOn msg.  Hit 7 and 9 together.  Then hit Menu, Snd, End, Rcl, Sto, Clr.  Phone says good timing!  Rather humorous wouldn’t you say?   http://www.phreak.org/archives/radiophone/oki/DEBUG.DOC   For digital phone scanning: http://www.hackwire.com/comments.php?catid=1&id=191   So when you talk on your cell phone…. Talk as though you Read more…

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Study of Oxygens effect on recurrent Headaches using Oxygen Concentrator Have your own Oxygen Bar

     This is the oxygen concentrator I bought

I get headaches fairly mainly due to having allergies.  In the past I have heard about the immediate effects of concentrated oxygen on headaches and want to try it as a remedy.  This is where I will keep notes on my research.

  1. First step is to just try some oxygen when I have a headache: http://www.o2zonearomatherapy.com/contact.php
  2. If #1 is promising I'll try to get an oxygen concentrator:   http://www.specialtymedicalsupply.com/cart.php
  3. I will study the effects of the oxygen on attention span while programming.
  4. Effect on sleep

 Reference material

How an oxygen concentrator works  –  uses zeolite and is nonhazardous. Produces about 90% oxygen.

Replacement Filters

Disc = final bacteria filter

Canister = Intake Filter

Black Foam = box intake filter – reusable

Can get these filters here:

Craigslist

 Results

  • Definitely gets rid of headaches
  • helped with neck stiffness caused by tension headache
  • resting heart rate = 42. Normally without concentrated oxygen 50 is my resting rate.
  • My daily runs are easier and faster.  Blood pressure seems better.
  • Memory tests are proving out that memory function is more rapid
  • Much better attention span while coding.  Much less likely to distract into an internet browsing frenzy avoiding work
  • In the past while staying in Phoenix I have found that I wake up with a headache 50% of the time.  I have had the concentrator 2 weeks now and no headaches
  • Lessons my allergy problems in general.  Cuticles about my fingernails are in much better condition as they are much less irritated.

Assorted Notes:

  • This is a definite add to your collection of useful household devices.
  • Do not smoke while using.  Pure oxygen can make the usually flame resistant materials burn bright and fast.  I found out while testing with a pipe.  The flame lept from the pipe to the exit holes of the plastic tubing which then proceded to burn like rocket fuel.
  • Add a peppermint tea bag to the water bottle because it smells like heaven
  • Some people are using these machines to make small welding torches with this supplying the oxygen. No need to get oxygen bottles!

My Darth Vader black helmet is on the way!  Get one.  Join the power of the darkside.

Assorted Follow Up

About 3 months after buying this oxygen concentrator I started eating alot of beans because they are good and they are cheap.  I stopped eating wheat products strictly by accident.  Imagine my surprise when the psoriasis on my hands cleared up.  My lung tightness and frequent headaches that this machine had helped with went away completely. I am now on a gluten free diet and feeling very good.  You can read about my discovery of gluten's very bad effects on me here.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

VB Visual Basic ModBus Checksum Routine

Function CRC16_BIN(ByRef ModBus_Data() As Long, NumBytes As Integer) As Long
  
    Dim Temp As Long
    Dim CRC As Long
    Dim Polynomial As Long
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim j As Integer
'—– following are read sequence checksum verification vectors  — test where either hi or lo byte == 0
'— Example temperature= 1 :   1  3  64  0  1  217  144
'—         temperature=255:   1  3  64  0  255  88  16
'—         temperature=256:   1  3  64  1  0  25  192
'—         temperature=257:   1  3  64  1  1  216  0
'—                     =0 :   1  3  64  0  0  24  80
  '— verified write string = Chr(1) & Chr(6) & Chr(64) & Chr(3) & Chr(232) & Chr(24) & Chr(34)
    CRC = 65535          '–bottom 16 bits are all 1's
    Polynomial = 40961   '–poly = A001
    For i = 0 To NumBytes – 1
      CRC = CRC Xor ModBus_Data(i)
      For j = 0 To 7
        If (CRC And 1) Then
          CRC = (ShiftRight(CRC) Xor 40961)
        Else
          CRC = ShiftRight(CRC)
        End If
      Next j
    Next i
    CRC16_BIN = CRC And 65535
   
    End Function

 

Research Links

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago