Just a quick update today. I want to make myself a little most popular pages this week for the front page of this site. Now, I am using the lovely Piwik Analytics tool to monitor the site. So I first looked at the Piwik API. That should be the way to do it right? Not quite. The Actions plugin can …

The slider requires javascript. Trying to load it now... $('#slider').flickrshow({ autoplay:true, interval:5000, set:'72157626958402918' }); A few weeks back I was browsing round Perlmonks as is my wont, when I came across planetscape's post How can I …

This is a pretty minimal tip. The other day I was looking for a way to shorten URLs from the commandline. Now the bit.ly API expects you to authenticate before doing any shortening (I’ve not pulled apart the web ui to see if its possible without). The is.gd URL shortener has no such restric …

Monk   This is a tool for making an minimal RSS feed of a user's posts from the Perlmonks website. I made it to incude my perlmonks posts in my Drupal life aggregator with my perlmonks posts. You can construct an url to get ther feed from scripts or the CLI by hand usinghttp://charlie …

I don't know if you heard about it but Fabrice Bellard recently made a Javascript PC emulator that could boot a full linux with emacs and vi and even a c compiler. Which is insane. I wanted to check it out, but the core Iceweasel on Debian Squeeze (3.5) isn't up to the job, Fabrice has coded it t …

Update: Now this uses my new TwitRSS.me tool. Please donate and keep TwitRSS.me online.User: With replies?:   Love it or loathe it, it looks like Twitter is likely to remain an important part of the infrastructure of the interwebs for some time. Bac …

This should be an unusual blog. I’m attempting to combine a belated shoutout for nor’s collaborative porn project, OpenSauce with a howto guide to making rsync work on windows. Lets see how it that works out. Nor's radicalx project has previously inv …

Activists and other people are frequently targetted for surveillance by power in its various forms - governments, police, media and corporate power. Increasingly this surveillance takes place on line. And so it makes sense to set up your firefox browser to be as resistent as possible to such surve …

I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with RSS. Its just simple enough that you can make something in an evening. But just complex enough that the thing could potentially be a bit interesting. So, I set out to learn a bit more about Drupal, especially about theming it. I wan …

First thing, I have taken a fairly liberal interpretation of what a project is. So, a project might be a little hack I did one weekend, or something I made, or it might be a bit of work that I’ve done as a volunteer or even a bit of paid work that I’ve done. Well, I think you get th …