Seraphiel 0.73 released!

Seraphiel 0.73 is now out - it’s updated for age 39. Download it now!

Seraphiel 0.72 released!

Seraphiel 0.72 helps further advance the cause of total quality, by means of having a buildings calculator that doesn’t break when you reach 10k acres.

Install Seraphiel now!

So maybe I won’t buy that one…

I can only wonder what tormented system could have managed to price a technical book at $2,143.75.

The putty monster

One of my favourite desk toys is some nice silly thinking putty. Anyway, I was messing around with it a bit today, spreading it out thinly. And then… I wrapped my hand in it. Try it at home!

Anyway, next, I tried spreading my fingers out, with my hand encased in putty. Turns out that’s pretty good hand exercise. And whilst you’re there, you may as well make the Vulcan salute:

Also, try curling your fingers over to touch your palm, and then spread them out again. If your hand starts to look like a swamp monster, or emo-Peter from Spiderman 3, well, that’s good too.

Webflicker 0.1b1 released!

For a few weeks now, I’ve been using DVD rental site Webflicks. It’s… ok. Turnaround could stand to be a bit faster (so far, I’m finding that if I return a DVD the day after I get it, a new one turns up a week later).

To date, the only DVDs that I haven’t found in their catalogue are seasons of The IT Crowd - but, that said, it’s possible, at this stage, that some of the DVDs in the catalogue aren’t actually there. But I don’t know that. I don’t think I’ve been with them long enough to properly evaluate their range - so far, they’ve been sending me DVDs *mostly* from the first few preferences.

Ok, enough with the reviews. The big thing that irks me about their site is that their user interface is a bit… unusable. I really, really wish that their cookies didn’t expire so fast, they override the “Enter” key in all their forms in unfortunate ways, and the commonly used Account pages take more clicks than they should to get to.

Webflicker is an attempt to fix a few of the problems. It doesn’t make their cookies last longer, though it does automatically redirect you from the useless home page to the login page. It doesn’t stop the overriding of the “Enter” key (yet…). And it provides a few handy links to commonly used (I think) Account pages on the left hand side of every page.

Anyway, hopefully this will prove of use to someone. Enjoy!

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A few notes for Seraphiel fans:
I also updated the Seraphiel FAQ. A new version of Seraphiel, with a few ice extra features (based on user input), should be coming out soon(-ish).

OMG! Digg is censoring 09-f9…!!!

Arrrrrhhh, me hearties, it be Talk Like a Pirate day, says I. Avast, you’d best all be keelhauling me for that title.

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Shiver me timbers! Can it be that scurvy Slashdog “dfk” has found a solution for landlubbers being so ignorant of sarcasm on forums? We be needing some more XML namespaces over here.

6 tags to crash IE….

Slashdot may be bored by the 6 tags that can crash IE, but even so, I thought it was interesting.

Here’s the code:

<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input /></table>

Indeed, if you take that and save it onto your hard drive, you can crash Windows Explorer just by selecting it (YMMV depending on the version of IE and the operating system: I’m using IE6 on Windows XP Professional (32-bit)).

Use the leftMouseButton to grab on the control points and drag.

It is very rocky. It is your responsibility to respect all legal aspects.
Duration of an activity that began in the past and continues to the
present. It is worth noting that for performance reasons, delaying as
much as possible is often a good idea.
Then the time came to give the talk, and here are these monster minds
in front of me, waiting. An unusual situation can arise that puts
Windows in an infinite loop when the ES register holds the selector
to a discardable code segment.
But I think I see what you mean. Alternately, you can install
Microsoft Posting Acceptor 2.
Then I got up and stood behind her. I lit a cigarette.
FramerD was originally developed at MIT’s Media Laboratory by Ken
Haase. Jefri Olsndot, you are someone I want very much to meet.
And yet, as you see, I will not touch the creature. When an
application passes the handle returned by CreateCompatibleDC to one
of the drawing functions, the requested output does not appear on a
device’s drawing surface.
Maybe there are others like me and others who have found a solution,
might be good if we get an answer to this. Those Tsorteans must think
we’re simple.
It is zero if the function failed. Single-element operations return
positions, where a non-NULL value indicates that it worked.
It is your side that needs that little homily, I think. Maybe I can
work them into the package some way.
This can be used to avoid that a contained item matches in the start
or end pattern. It isn’t like we had some money laid by to take care
of emergencies.
He’s always bad then. As we have seen, that is what causes activation
object persistence.

Yay! More image spam!

If you want more of this sort of rubbish, I guess you’ll just have to read something from that no good fish pirate. It makes almost as much sense as the above.

Newb-nix 01: “nclude”

When you open the vi text editor, you start in “command” mode, which allows you to use various commands for deleting text, regular expressions, jumping to lines, inserting lines, and so forth. Anyway, to actually write stuff, you’ve got to go into one of the various edit modes. This requires pressing one of a few various keys (for example, i for insert, a for append, R for replace, and so on).

And here, we see me continuously forgetting to go into insert mode.

Luddite.

I finally bought a digital camera today. In combination with the fact that I am now over a very stressful period of assignments, I guess that means that you’re going to get to see some of the things I’ve been meaning to take photos of for a while, but haven’t, for the want of a camera.

And some things that really should have been captured with a scanner too, except that I don’t have one of them. And no plans to get one either.