Applescript is a scripting language I haven't played much with since I got my Powerbook. I actually haven't found any use of it...until now I have created a small Applescript which uses the shell "utility" fortune to display some wisdom in the everyday work. From the man page for fortune: «fortune - print a [...]
Archive for August, 2006
I now received spam on my phone too! I was sitting here working on my thesis when I heard the phone rang in the living room. It immidiately stopped, and there was a WAP Push message in my inbox. Obviously, the ringing was only for getting attention. The message said: 3 FREE Ringtones! and the url for [...]
Skype includes an option to poll the online status from a username, and that is what I use for the online status display on the sidebar here. Since I want the plain text version (and not all caps like the one Skype offers), I used this code in a k2 php module: PLAIN TEXT PHP: $status = file_get_contents("http://mystatus.skype.com/lindsve.num"); switch($status) [...]
I have been quite busy lately, so it's been a while since my last post on this blog. My thesis is approaching the deadline, and there is still a lot of work to do, but I'm really looking forward to getting it done. I have now updated the Wordpress install here (to 2.0.4), and in the [...]
