I just noticed a lovely little “Privacy Report” icon in the corner of my Blogsome Dashboard pages. Clicking it revealed the following: 
I wonder what the rule is: is it to stop anything with the word Firefox in it?
I had a thought as to why it might not be a good idea to use /commands, instead of %_commands in Adium. If the text you type is part of a URL, then it will be replaced by the substituted text. For instance, http://itunes.schinckel.net/ would be replaced by http:/♫ The Chemical Brothers (Feat. The Flaming Lips) • The Golden Path.schinckel.net/, which is probably not desired behaviour. I’m not sure if this is a big enough deal for me to stop using them. I did also note that an afp:// had a smiley inserted into it instead… Update: You can add the following to the Info.plist:
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Where the keyword appears. This will mean that the tag must be at the start of a ‘word’ for it work. Thanks, Reikon!
I’m transferring my domain over to new nameservers, this means there may be a slight interruption to mail and url forwarding. Apologies if I don’t get an email you sent me…
I had to fix a couple of things in my Adium Scripts tonight: I figured out that if you are a chat with more than one person (like in a Jabber ‘room’), and you use serviceClass of contact of the active chat of the first interface controller you will get a list of items, not just one. Actually, you always get a list, just usually it’s only one item long. So, to test if the chat serviceClass is in a set that can handle HTML in chats, you need to use first item of serviceClass... instead of just serviceClass... Note that this returns correct values, wheras serviceClass of chat 1 (where it is a group chat) will return an empty string. Bad coding, Adium. Anyway, I’ve fixed /who to work with multi-person chats, too.
I’ve started phase one of the iTunes controller bot: I’m downloading the jabber server for MacOS X. $ sudo port install jabberd Phase Two will soon be underway: I’ve also downloaded the source of a Python bot… more to come soon! Actually, getting the jabber server to work wasn’t as easy as it should have been: I’m using a private jabber account on a server only I know about, but I’ll post more stuff as I get it working. Python looks to be an easy way of getting the bot to work: it would be nice to be able to do it all in AppleScript though. I can’t believe I just said that!
Well, today was a busy day. Beginning at 8:45, we removed 2.5m of the wall between the kitchen and the lounge. The cavity doesn’t go right up to the ceiling, but is at about normal door height. Apologies to everyone, but this is avery photo-heavy post. To start with, we drilled three holes in the wall, well above where the cavity was going to be. Then we inserted Ø40 steel bars through the wall, and supported them with upright adjustable stands. We used a large piece of timber to keep everything stable. 
Then we cut out the section where the C-Channel Lintel was going, and inserted that in. 
Finally, we removed the section of wall that was no longer required. 
There’s still a lot to do: for instance, we are actually going to insert some vertical supports, just because we are chicken and don’t believe the engineer! (Well, Jaq is anyway). As you can see from this last set of photos, there were quite a few bessa blocks removed! Oh, and we got the smaller wall between the lounge and dining rooms ready to knock out as well. 
Oh, and the last image is me just showing off the macro function in the camera I borrowed from work.
Not that this has ever come up, but there is an AppleScript out there somewhere that allows you to type %_who into Adium, and it returns a list of people you are chatting to.
Naturally, it was sub-standard, and I have improved it.
Features mine has:
I’ve included the old one if anyone was interested: you can get it by typing %_who. Mine uses /who, and you can download it from Adium Xtras.
I had a thought just before. (Unusual, I know). I wrote a program called iTunesRater so I can rate my music as I listen to it in iTunes, and then went on to write a series of Adium Scripts to control iTunes ratings, and get data from iTunes.
What if instead of having to create scripts for iTunes that did everything you want, you just create a bot that runs, and you send messages to it, and it controls iTunes. So, I could have the program running, and instead of having to type: /itunes
_♫ The Chemical Brothers (Feat. The Flaming Lips) • The Golden Path _
/rate{44} /itunes
♫ The Chemical Brothers (Feat. The Flaming Lips) • The Golden Path ★★
I could just start up a chat with iTunes, and type all sorts of commands:
me: song
it: ♫ The Chemical Brothers (Feat. The Flaming Lips) • The Golden Path
me: rate 44
it: ♫ The Chemical Brothers (Feat. The Flaming Lips) • The Golden Path ★★
me: next track
[iTunes next track plays]
All it would seem to require is a program that can connect to a server of some sort (I think maybe Jabber, then I can run my own Jabber server!), and sends AppleScript messages to iTunes. Or any other application, for that matter.
I opened this page in Camino, and found that the tab coloured itself blue: 
Weird. I wonder if its a controllable thing, or a bug? Edit: Must be a bug, as opening a new page in the same tab kept the tab blue, and closing the tab and re-opening the same page didn’t result in that tab going blue. Strange.
As I checked the mailbox when getting home tonight, I noticed a lovely purple Arum-like flower growing just near: 
After picking it, I noticed that it was rather smelly. In fact, it smells like a dead sheep, or something like that!