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Erik — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:06:32 +0000

Found this nice little php snippet lying around in my misc script folder. Its relatively easy to install and use. I don’t know the author of the script, so if you know, give me a whisper and I will add the credits.

<?php<br />
//make this the relative path to the images, like “../img” or “random/images/”.<br />
//if the images are in the same directory, leave it blank.<br />
$folder = ‘../images/random/’;</p>
<p>//space seperated list of extensions, you probably won’t have to change this.<br />
$exts = ‘jpg jpeg png gif’;</p>
<p>$files = array(); $i = -1;<br />
if(” == $folder) {<br />
    $folder = ‘./’;<br />
    $handle = opendir($folder);<br />
    $exts = explode(‘ ‘, $exts);<br />
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {<br />
        //for each extension check the extension<br />
        foreach($exts as $ext) {<br />
            //faster than ereg, case insensitive<br />
            if (preg_match(‘/\.’.$ext.’$/i’, $file, $test)) {<br />
                $files[] = $file;<br />
                ++$i;<br />
            }<br />
        }<br />
    }<br />
}<br />
closedir($handle);<br />
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);<br />
$rand = mt_rand(0, $i);</p>
<p>header(‘Location: ‘.$folder.$files[$rand]);<br />
?>

<?php

//make this the relative path to the images, like “../img” or “random/images/”.

//if the images are in the same directory, leave it blank.

$folder = ‘../images/random/’;

//space seperated list of extensions, you probably won’t have to change this.

$exts = ‘jpg jpeg png gif’;

$files = array(); $i = -1;

if(” == $folder) {

$folder = ‘./’;

$handle = opendir($folder);

$exts = explode(‘ ‘, $exts);

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {

//for each extension check the extension

foreach($exts as $ext) {

//faster than ereg, case insensitive

if (preg_match(‘/\.’.$ext.‘$/i’, $file, $test)) {

$files[] = $file;

++$i;

}

closedir($handle);

mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);

$rand = mt_rand(0, $i);

header(‘Location: ‘.$folder.$files[$rand]);

Aurora

Erik — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:17:38 +0000

Found on March 27th 1875, Devils Creek in Yellowstone, Canada. Aurora has a muscular build. She is strong and isn’t afraid to show it. Being from a northern land, she has the thick fluffy double-coat that is characteristic of a timber wolf and Siberian husky. Her coat is a mix of dark and light browns and black and grey highlights. The coat naturally well groomed, hiding some of her wild feral features. Her eyes are of a purple-bluish color that shines blue in the daylight and purplish in the night or moonlight. Aurora has a knack for getting her nose into anything, being curious of nature. Still having some of the pup syndrome in her, she often filches things she is curious about.

This story is a legend that came long before man, for his own selfish ways, shunned the truth. Long in the past when the world was a bit more pure. Times were wolf and man lived side by side as brothers. Man and wolf grew apart, and now wolves don’t choose man as its companion anymore. But one wolf has… and this… this is her story.

“My strength is slowing leaving me. I feel the numbness in my body and a sort of peace starting to come over me. I close my eyes and death surrounds me. I lay there for a bit and something starts to happen. I start to feel different, but I’m not sure why. I slowly get to my feet, standing there just for a second and then I slowly turn around. I look down at the snow-covered ground and with fear in my heart, I see myself laying there, not moving. No! I say to myself. This can’t be happening. I wonder if this is this a dream. Is it a fantasy that I will wake from?”

The young woman walked through the forest this bright early morning. She was out checking the snares she had set the night before. The woman stumbled upon an icy rock near stream melted by the coming of spring. She tripped her landing and fell into the half foot deep ice cold water. Cursing under her breath she glimpsed something on the other side if the stream. Helping herself up, she took the two steps over running water and found a wolf pup dying of hunger. It couldn’t be very old, maybe just barely old enough to eat solid food. She felt both pity and a sense of love for the young pup. There was just something about it that made a connection. She picked up the pup, prickled its nose and wrapped it inside her thick winter jacket.

“What is that? A strange shadow is moving towards me, I must run and hide! But why can’t I run away? The shadow is coming closer, but… but I feel no fear?! I feel something touching my nose, kind of tickling. It’s just like my mom used to do to me when we were cuddling against each other for warmth back in the den. I then suddenly get swept away from the dreamy haze and I can feel the warmth around my body. Oh how I have missed this feeling. A joy of warmth and peace, I start to drift back to sleep.”

Back at the campfire the young woman opens the pup’s mouth, poring warm herbal liquid down the pup’s throat. She then gently and caringly starts feeding the pup some dry meat, mixing it up with more of the warm herbal liquid. The pup slowly starts to open its eyes, looking and the young woman with the most deepest tranquil sapphire eyes. She smiles and a tear drops down from her chin, hitting softly on the pup’s nose. Looking deep into the pup’s eye the young woman speaks with a soothing voice “I know you don’t have anything to give me in return for saving your life. But there is one thing I would like in return. I would like to name you”. The pup looked at her with its amber eyes and the young woman gently moved the pup closer and with a warm soothing voice she whispered into the pup’s ear. “Your name is Aurora, for your eyes are as wild and mysterious as the northern lights on the sky at night”. The young woman looks up at the sky and then smiles down at the pup in her arms whispering softly. “Hold your name close. Remember what it means and you shall never fail”. The pup’s eyes shone bright in the light from the campfire and then slowly closed as it cuddled closer in the young woman’s warm arms.

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Aurora