Just got my Wii tuned in to a Shoutcast radio stream using WiiHear.com – pretty neat :) Now if only it had tabbed browsing, so I could leave it in the background and do something else…. perhaps I need to make a little frameset with a thin frame containing a Flash streaming player, so you can load another page in the main frame.
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SMS::AQL reaches 100% “Kwalitee” score
Version 0.04 of SMS::AQL which I released the other day gets a 100% “Kwalitee” score on CPANTS (the CPAN Testing Service) – see the report.
Thanks to Altinity for featuring SMS::AQL in their Opsview package and for mentioning it on their blog.
And, you might be asking, just what is "Kwalitee"? Well, it’s a sort-of made up measure of code quality… read the full explanation.
Bloxorz: annoying yet addictive
Bloxorz is an annoyingly catchy Flash game involving moving a big block around, but with some ingenious twists which makes it both addictive and frustrating.
It’s too wide to fit in the homepage column, so hit up the “Continue reading…” link to play…
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SMS::AQL 0.04 released
Finally released SMS::AQL Perl module">SMS::AQL v0.04 to CPAN last night, incorporating improvements kindly submitted by Ton Voon from Altinity. Thanks Ton!
The changes include better parsing of server responses, documentation improvements, and a new test script using Test::MockObject to exercise the module without actually interacting with AQL or sending messages. Brilliant stuff.
Altinity look to be a nice company doing Open-Source data centre management tools, and actively support Open-Source projects by contributing code and bug fixes.
Giant badgers terrorise Iraqi city
You couldn’t make it up – apparently giant man-eating badgers are terrorising Basra.
Rumour goes that giant “man-eating badgers” were released into the area by British troops.
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Will the iPhone blend?
I’ve been getting sick of hearing about the iPhone lately, it seems to be the only thing a lot of bloggers and tech news sites are writing about. Sure it’s a pretty nice-looking gadget, but you’d think it was a f**king cure for cancer by the amount of exposure.
This is one link that amused me though: Will an iPhone blend?
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George Bush’s parrot
Laura Bush bought George a parrot for his birthday. She told Dick Cheney, “The bird is so smart! George has already taught him to mispronounce over 200 words!”
“Wow, that’s pretty impressive,” Cheney said. “But you realize that he just says the words. He doesn’t understand what they mean”.
“That’s okay,” Laura replied. “Neither does the parrot”…
(Taken from a post on Visordown)
Desktop Tower Defence – annoyingly addictive
I discovered Desktop Tower Defence yesterday. This game is simple but catchy, and keeps you trying again to beat your score.
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Bash’s $_ variable (last argument)
A few weeks ago, I found out about the incredibly useful Bash variable $_, which means “the last argument of the last command executed”.
It’s kind of similar to Perl’s $_ var in some ways, and can save a lot of typing.
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49MB mailbox size limit (Postfix & procmail)
Here for future reference more than anything else, and to help anyone who’s Googling for this.
I have my email delivered to a box at home running Postfix, and stored by procmail into mbox mailboxes.
I was finding that, whenever a mailbox file reached about 49MB, procmail would no longer deliver mail into that mailbox, instead dumping it into my main system mailbox.
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