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Every now and then, I run into neat ideas that seem handy. Too bad I always forget to bookmark those sites, let alone remember the URLs. That's why I wrote this little hack. Easy and simple, but it "works". Of course I'm open to suggestions to improve it. Anyways, here's the image lister.

Every now and then, I run into neat ideas that seem handy. Too bad I always forget to bookmark those sites, let alone remember the URLs. That's why I wrote this little hack. Easy and simple, but it "works". Of course I'm open to suggestions to improve it. Anyways, here's the image lister.

Every now and then, I run into neat ideas that seem handy. Too bad I always forget to bookmark those sites, let alone remember the URLs. That's why I wrote this little hack. Easy and simple, but it "works". Of course I'm open to suggestions to improve it. Anyways, here's the image lister.

AdBlock is a fine FireFox extension. The only small downside is that, if you install it on a new machine, you will have to copy your settings again. Now wouldn't it be nice if there was some central database with AdBlock settings that you could import with a single click? Maybe I should start looking into writing FireFox extensions...

AdBlock is a fine FireFox extension. The only small downside is that, if you install it on a new machine, you will have to copy your settings again. Now wouldn't it be nice if there was some central database with AdBlock settings that you could import with a single click? Maybe I should start looking into writing FireFox extensions...

A new Dan Swanö project? Nope, it's Christian Älvestam once again tricking you. The Unmoored singer can be easily mistaken by Dan Swanö.

You can think of Scar Symmetry of a mixture of Unmoored, Soilwork with some Fear Factory. Awesome riffs, great recording. Recommended!

Label: Cold Records

I've just released HTML::BBCode v. 1.00. You can play around in the sandbox.

Quite a lot has changed since the previous version, for that one just used a quick selection of regexps, while version 1.00 has a (very poor) parser to handle the (horrible) BBCode.

Sometimes you run into modules that look very promising. Today I ran into CGI::FormBuilder (doc on CPAN).

First of all I thought of this as some extension to the big CGI module, and wondered if that would be nice. Since I've started to use Template (Toolkit), I've been separating the content from the scripting (on somewhat bigger projects) and I tend to like that. This CGI::FormBuilder then would be "stepping back".

But, after looking some more, I found out it can be used with Template (and HTML::Template, Text::Template too for the matter)! So yes, now I definitely have to look into this module. Very promising. If it works like the way I think it will, I will even write less code on an average project (laziness is a bliss).

Although this is not a "new" release (it's from 2003), I must add this to my list here. This album simply knocks you to the floor.

Disiplin is formed by Myrkskog's General K. and plays a mixture of Satyricon doing death metal. Mid-tempo cold black metal that is simply brilliant.

I knew this debut album for a while now, but today I finally added it to my personal collection.

Label: Moonfog Productions

Until the album "Made of Flesh", I've had never heard of Fleshcrawl before. That album hit me like a concrete wall though. Swedish "lawn mower" sound straight out of Germany, much to the liking of a Dismember fan.

Shortly after, I discovered there was more Fleshcrawl and I found the album "Soulskinner". But, there's so much more! The band started in 1987! Their debut album was released in 1992 and after that one, more followed. To get an overview of those early albums, "Crawling in Flesh" is a nice album, for it covers those early years. If you already have those albums, skip this release ;) Yes, it's quite a pointless release, but nice for the people who don't know that much of Fleshcrawl.

Label: Black Mark

Spam is annoying enough, but luckily I filter a lot of that out of all the incoming emails by using RBLs and SpamAssassin. Another plague of late seem to be the Nigeria scams.

The never ending stream of these s[c|p]am mails was enough for me to finally start looking into Mail::Box and the Nigeria Scam Archive was born. Just a quick hack to test out the Perl module mentioned above.

Spam is annoying enough, but luckily I filter a lot of that out of all the incoming emails by using RBLs and SpamAssassin. Another plague of late seem to be the Nigeria scams.

The never ending stream of these s[c|p]am mails was enough for me to finally start looking into Mail::Box and the Nigeria Scam Archive was born. Just a quick hack to test out the Perl module mentioned above.

Spam is annoying enough, but luckily I filter a lot of that out of all the incoming emails by using RBLs and SpamAssassin. Another plague of late seem to be the Nigeria scams.

The never ending stream of these s[c|p]am mails was enough for me to finally start looking into Mail::Box and the Nigeria Scam Archive was born. Just a quick hack to test out the Perl module mentioned above.

I like Firefox, really. And the good thing are of course the extensions. Little gems that make the browser worth using.

Today I came across an extension I had never seen before, called miniT. This extension allows you to move tabs around (I remember cursing Firefox for the lack of it a couple of times before ;) along with some other goodies. Nice, very nice. My browser has just become a little better again.

Blood Red Throne strikes once again with a massive solid album titled "Altered Genesis".

Although the good production makes it very pleasant to listen to this album, there's not much new or shocking to be found. It's more like what has been done before. Not that there's anything wrong with that ;)

Label: Earache

Previously I talked about why phpBB sucks. And yet I maintain HTML::BBCode. Unfortunately, this markup system has gained popularity, due to phpBB's popularity. Therefore, a Perl port is handy.

BBCode is just yet-another-markup-"language", similar, but more restrictive than, for instance Markdown or Wiki.

First off, I thought a couple of regexp's would be enough to handle BBCode, but apparently other people started using it and pointed some bugs out. Now I'm working on HTML::BBCode v.1.00 and it's coming along ok. I'm not entirely satisfied with it yet, but soon I'll release the module on CPAN.

But yes, hypocrite that I am, I still believe phpBB and BBCode suck big time ...

Previously I talked about why phpBB sucks. And yet I maintain HTML::BBCode. Unfortunately, this markup system has gained popularity, due to phpBB's popularity. Therefore, a Perl port is handy.

BBCode is just yet-another-markup-"language", similar, but more restrictive than, for instance Markdown or Wiki.

First off, I thought a couple of regexp's would be enough to handle BBCode, but apparently other people started using it and pointed some bugs out. Now I'm working on HTML::BBCode v.1.00 and it's coming along ok. I'm not entirely satisfied with it yet, but soon I'll release the module on CPAN.

But yes, hypocrite that I am, I still believe phpBB and BBCode suck big time ...

Poland strikes again with a new album by Crionics. The country has doing rather well lately in bringing forth good quality productions. Crionics' latest album "Armageddon's Evolution" is no exception.

A good way to describe the sound of this album, is to put it as I saw at blabbermouth.net:

"You could say that if Behemoth were covering songs by Dimmu Borgir and Emperor, it might sound like "Armageddon's Evolution".

You could also just say it has something Myrkskog'ish. All in all, very acceptable, very nice.

Label: Empire Records

Poor MS Windows users suffer from a lot of virusses nowadays. But the non-MS Windows users only suffer from a lot of useless mails containing virusses.

NewsForge ran an article on trying to run these virusses on a Linux machine using Wine. The author tried 5 known virusses (Klez, MyDoom, Sobig, SCO Worm, and SomeFool) and looked at how GNU/Linux friendly they were.

Funny remarks, such as the following, make this an interesting read:

"While I have friends that collect viruses, I didn't need to bother them. I found plenty by looking through my staggering collection of bogofilter sorted mail."

"[...] it's clear that the Wine developers have a long way to go before Wine is truly Windows compatible."

Slashdot reported about the new FreeBSD contest for a new logo, to replace the cute daemon.

According to the contest page:

"this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside."

At this time, however, the contest page claims not to be ready yet:

"Despite an early draft announcement that got out we are not quite ready for the logos yet."

Thank god, there's a petition to save the old logo. Probably it won't help, but who cares. Save beastie!

Slashdot reported about the new FreeBSD contest for a new logo, to replace the cute daemon.

According to the contest page:

"this daemon character seems cute from somebody's point of view, but somebody may think which does not suit for the professional products to indicate that are using the FreeBSD inside."

At this time, however, the contest page claims not to be ready yet:

"Despite an early draft announcement that got out we are not quite ready for the logos yet."

Thank god, there's a petition to save the old logo. Probably it won't help, but who cares. Save beastie!

Class::DBI is simply brilliant, really. It's great for lazy scripters who really don't like to write a lot of code. Tony Bowden, many many thanks!

So I threw this module at an ordering system at work. After successfully creating some packages containing many has_many relationships to other databases, I ran into problems.

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax;
...

I could not spot the error easily, until it hit me again! Damned MySQL has an amount of reserved words that will mess up things when you use them as column names (yeah, I used 'order' and 'to').

Easiest fix: rename column names.
Hard way: write code or hack DBIx::ContextualFetch *shrug*

Usually, I really enjoy albums with nice good recordings, like Belphegor, Dark Funeral and Immortal (new material of all bands). The underground albums I usually don't feel much for. This Utuk Xul album, however, hit me by surprise. The album, full of Colombian black hate, rages on at high speed. Blasting Black Metal with shrieking vocals and an occasional audible keyboard.

Maybe I'm starting to appreciate undergroundish recordings more. Maybe this is just a nice album.

Labels: Hell Attacks Productions, From Beyond Productions

Like stated many times before, some people have too much time on their hands. What about Brad Yung. He compiled a nice top 100 list of "worst porn movie titles". Useless, but pretty funny.