Horoscopes

I recently began reading a text book “English Phrasal Verbs in Use.” There is a sentence about horoscopes there as follow up.

Horoscopes are often good places to find everyday, informal phrasal verbs. Read your horoscope regularly in an English newspaper or magazine, even if you don’t believe it, and note down any phrasal verbs.

I don’t believe horoscopes, but it seems to be interesting to read them as one of ways of learning English. At least I think horoscopes are better than blood type-telling that is liked among Japanese. So I looked for a blog tool about horoscopes. A site providing free horoscopes I selected for including in my blog is here.

I sent my request week ago more but haven’t gotten reply yet. Did I typo my e-mail address? Today, I visited the site again and I would send my request, but I couldn’t see a captcha image for Anti SPAM. Does anyone know what's going on?

The MediaWiki

I wanted to use the Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang on own MediaWiki. But even if the latest version of MediaWiki was installed, the result wasn’t display correctly. I could see vast amounts of texts in the area. If Template:Languages/Lang is available, some linked texts which don’t have any corresponding language page aren’t displayed. Before then, the result I could see the expression was obviously wrong.

I had searched for a solution for two days and found a way to clear it yesterday. The Template:Languages and Template:Languages/Lang needed the ParserFunctions extension to become available. And I needed to add following one line code to LocalSettings.php.

require_once("$IP/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php");

This was working. I think that they are special features to easily select a page from a lot of localization ones. But nevertheless why aren’t these features available on default? Even so, I only write Japanese and English. :-p

By the way, external link’s arrow icon also didn’t displayed in which case selecting the CologneBlue as skin. About this, I wrote CSS code in MediaWiki:Cologneblue.css. The code is as follows.

a.external,text {
background: url( image’s full path ) center right no-repeat;
padding-right: 13px;
}

I didn’t understand anything else image’s full path. Anyway, the Mediawiki is very difficult. I can’t casually use it like the Hiki and YukiWiki.

Not Exactly

Hold on a shake. Should I catch on the yesterday’s message as an alert one? When you think about it carefully today,I feel not exactly. That wasn’t the message compiler outputed, was a mere log. CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData function is in CoreFoundation. That doesn't change anything about my understanding. I can’t solve this behavior ^^;

The RegexKit.framework

My development environment shifted the Leopard, and the Xcode’s version became number 3. I changed from the OgreKit to the RegexKit.framework on this occasion. it’s a regular expressions for Objective-C.

Those functionality are provided via various category extensions to common Foundation objects, such as the RegexKit framework additions to NSArray, NSDictionary, NSSet, NSString, and their mutable variants. It seems to be easy to use. I installed and immediately tried it, but ... uh... an alert message appeared.

CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

What is this?

Tell Me

A trouble was solved that my program didn’t work on Leopard.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a diary as the Perl’s eval command related to the trouble, but it seemed wrong. After all, it didn’t relate to that. The cause of trouble was only AppleScript’s “tell block” syntax.

Why did I think that “tell block” didn’t relate to this problem? Because I knew that a command controls UI as “display dialog” needs to tell the Finder, when using osascript. Of course I had taken action.

By the way, To write “tell application "Finder"” in blind panic is wrong, too. For example, that is POSIX file command. It is in OSAX called “StandardAdditions”, but is not a application. This command will fail in case binding tell-block. So until that time, the command had been naked.

Just, the occasion was in those codes. They needed to bind any object else. So, what was any object? I didn’t find the correct answer, but I came up with using “tell me.” Fortunately, the idea was available a way.

I Finished a Flower Bed

I finished a flower bed at my home. A container has been prepared, and a my next work is to bring soil to the flower bed. On my garden, There are much soil that are nowhere else to go when I dug a ground to build a toll shed. I’ll use them.