This is made of pure awesome. =)

So awesome! *geeking out*

I’m becoming such a horrible fanboy when it comes to Naruto. ^^;

It’s been over a year since I made any significant changes to the way my Gaia Online avatar looks. For the sheer hell of it, I played around with one of the avatar simulators: [link]

What’s truly sad? All I need to do is change my haircolor and buy the shirt and pants and I could pull this off.

What’s sadder, I finally got my Naruto discussion last night. I realized after listening for a while that the most of the kids’ knowledge of Naruto extends no further than the Chuunin exam, maybe the Gaara versus Naruto arc. I tried bringing up the current story arc, but realized I was barking up the wrong tree pretty quickly. They made a good stab at pretending to know who Hidan and Kakuzu were, but the only Akatsuki they truly knew where Itachi and Kisame. XD

Blah! Where is that credit card!? I want my site back! <_<

There is some benefit to living only 15 minutes from the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI. =) A squadron of military planes just went over my freaking house! Damn, those are some cool toys. XD Muaha!

Scared my girls half to death, but I’ve never had anything that cool fly so low over my house.

Hehe Don’t mind me, I like anything with big, shiny engines. XD

Okay, I feel really good! =) I just made my first captcha script! (Well, to be fair, I just completed a tutorial that took me step-by-step to make it.)

It needs some serious tweaking, because I have trouble reading some of the strings it produces. I wonder if there’s a way to put like little onigiri or other Japanese-cartoony type icons behind the text and make it a font that isn’t so HUGE. (400kb)

This is called a “captcha script.” It’s a little visual confirmation code that forces someone to input what they see before they’ll be allowed to register etc. Now that I have it creating the code and the matching image, all I have to do is have the archive compare the answer which is stored in a session (meaning, it becomes outdated fairly quickly) with what the person wrote.

The idea is to stop spammers from using a computer program (a “bot”) from registering on a web site.

It’s not foolproof, some programs can read it, plus they can always register manually. It also keeps the visually impaired from registering and may be too difficult for regular folks too.

Anyway, just had to share my little success. Sadly, I must now go back to my (real) homework.

*salutes*