Pictu 0.2.4a1 into the wild
The next alpha of Pictu, 0.2.4a1, is now available. This is a testing/bug hunting/feature requesting release.
About Pictu: http://www.postal-code.com/pictu/
Download Pictu: http://www.postal-code.com/public/Pictu0.2.4a1.sit
New in this release:
- supports more images
- has more menus
- provides more clickable buttons
- takes up more disk space
In otherwords: this version has more.
Men + women = evil
So sayeth Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia’s highest clerical authority:
“Allowing women to mix with men is the root of every evil and catastrophe. It is highly punishable. Mixing of men and women is a reason for greater decadence and adultery,” he said. “I severely condemn this matter and warn of grave [...]
iTunes Music Store RSS
In a brilliant example of how RSS can really be used (far beyond just synidcated blog content), Apple’s iTunes Music Store lets you create custom feeds based on a myriad number of options: iTunes Music Store RSS Generator.
An example: drag this link into your RSS aggregator to track new releases in the Alternative genre. An [...]
Aerogel
Sometimes those science guys up and develop something that just so fantastically weird it’s completely mind-numbing. I can actually feel it: my mind, numb in awe: Aerogel.
“It’s better than anything you can think of,” said Glenn Tsuyuki, a manager with the Mars rover project.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t put much stock in a statement like that, but [...]
Bagle/Beagle worm spreading fast
There’s a new email worm making the rounds and judging from the number of copies that I’ve received thus far, it’s spreading moderately quickly. Note that this is a Windows-only worm.
The characteristics of a Bagle (aka Beagle)-infected email are:
The From: field is spoofed. That is: it likely isn’t from who it says it’s from
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MAIL::Tools usage
Hot on the heels of my rant about the state of Perl I find the MIME::Tools which is very nicely constructed indeed. Minutes after installing it I had multipart messages being sent.
The example included in it’s docs is for multipart/mixed which is fine but what I really needed turned out to be multipart/alternative. To save [...]
Time for a nap
I know I’ve been working for too many hours straight when I think “I’m sure I have the CGI.pm book around here somewhere…” and my first thought is to reach for the command line and grep my bookcase.
And get irritated when I can’t.
The Cathedral
Every now and then something Flash-based comes along that just blows me away: The Cathedral.
Improved syndication
I like it when RSS feeds contain the entire text of a post; it means I can read it all without having to leave my aggregator. However my own feed wasn’t working that way at all, it was obeying the default MovableType practice of truncating at 30 words.
I’ve fixed that now. If you’re already subscribed [...]
Thoughts on interface
There are certain conversations that happen cyclically: “cold enough for you?”, “hot enough for you?”, “Apple is going to die”, “Microsoft will be killed by X”, and “A good interface is…”.
It’s the interface one I’m once most interested in at the moment (hell yes it’s cold enough for me, it’s cold enough for all of [...]