Posts by Adam Kent
Bookmarks for 12 April 2008
The Plug – Stranger Photos Have Happened – "I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up … When I retrieved the camera that night, I was happy to find that the entire roll of film had been [...]
Recent Bookmarks
nihilogic: Super Mario in 14kB Javascript – Insane! "Here's an experiment in keepings things small and confined to one Javascript file." Shifting Mind – Postalicious – Automatic bookmark posting Video on Flickr! – Flickr Blog – “Video! The rumours are true and ‘soon’ is now. We’re thrilled to introduce video on Flickr.” Pylons Python Web [...]
Sydney Traffic
Results of a little bit of weekend hacking… http://twitter.com/sydneytraffic It parses / screen scrapes the Sydney RTA’s traffic reports, does some text substitution in an effort to get the event text under the twitter 140 character message limit and automatically posts the updates. The idea is that one could then subscribe to sydneytraffic on twitter [...]
In Rainbows
12/10/2007 WASTE/RADIOHEAD LTD US LONDON 6.45 GBP INCL CONVERSION FEE 0.36 AUD $14.90- Just shy of AU$15 for the new Radiohead album. I think that’s about the right price. Thanks Radiohead.
That shell history meme…
Work: 105 cd 102 ls 42 telnet 35 make 20 ppc-linux-g++ 17 grep 14 svn 13 sudo 13 ping 12 export Home: 197 iwconfig 39 sudo 35 iwlist 28 ls 28 cat 24 find 24 cd 19 ping 12 less 7 vim What does all that say? I’ve been having some wireless connection issues at [...]
Rotating puff begone – Updated
My SMH rotating puff remover script (also at userscripts.org) has been updated with some new functionality – pagination removal! The SMH/Age for some reason splits longer articles into multiple pages, just to add annoyance. The script now fixes this by adding a fullpage link onto the end of every article page linked from any other [...]
Podcast downloading with Bashpodder
I am so behind the times here probably, but I have only just stumbled across a very useful little script called Bashpodder. In 44 lines of bash script (including comments!) it downloads podcast feeds, strips out the enclosures (ie. the audio) and neatly stores them away ready for transfer to your portable media device of [...]