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I have five invitations to be involved in the Mailplane beta. Email me if you are interested.

I’m loving my new Nokia E65. It works with Salling Clicker (which I will register, it is just great!), as well as the Nokia-downloadable iSync plugin. I’ve also bought nova media’s program for installing support for a wide range of phones SMS from Address Book. This too is very cool. I can now send (but not, unfortunately, read) text messages from the comfort of my keyboard. I may write some scripts to automatically send the same SMS to a whole Address Book group. That would be fairly neat. In terms of Salling Clicker and phone events, I’ve fallen in love with call notification (although, that may be also provided with the nova media plugin I’ve installed, I’ll find out when someone calls me), and proximity notifications. Such as being able to have Adium put me Away when I walk away from my machine. Autolock is also pretty cool.

Apple have released an Airport Update, which hopefully will have fixed the Kernel Panic issue that was plaguing Santa Rosa MacBook Pros. Haven’t had one yet, uptime is 18 mins…

9000 hits upon my site. Even if you factor in images, scripts, etc, there is no way there are that many pages. 207Mb downloaded by Yahoo! Slurp. I have less than 1/6 of that in data. Especially since I get less than 1% of my traffic from Yahoo! I’m fairly tempted to block their stupid crawler altogether. Fuck You, Yahoo!

I saw the first episode of Heroes when it was first televised here in Australia, and I thought it was quite cool, but I missed the remainder of them. And then I got access to all of the first season (or at least the first 15-odd episodes), and sat down and started watching. I love it. This is a program that really shines when you sit down and watch it in a big block. I would, I’m sure, be very frustrated if I had to wait a full week after the TO BE CONTINUED… that ends each episode. But being able to follow the characters immediately makes it a very enjoyable experience.

A bit over ten years ago, some mates of mine formed a band, and they had one performance: at Viv’s 21st. Their whirlwind tour of Robe over, the Scabby Nannas split up, moved on to other projects, and so on. They are back. I never thought I’d link to a myspace page, but here we go: The Scabby Nannas. You can hear their one original track “Always Go For Goals!”, and if you look hard enough you’ll also find videos of their performance earlier this year at the Walkerville RSL. Not sure if this was a paying gig, or just Viv’s 31st, but videos don’t lie. Since then, they’ve apparently been hard at work, recording this track (and possibly some more, under a secret alias I can’t remember anymore). (I’ve put this under Popular Music, although I’m not sure they are exactly “Popular”, per se. Maybe one day). Oh, and happy birth, Mitchell Vickery.

Always Go For Goals • Super Villian • Scabby Nannas ★★★

Okay, I think I’ve found an appscript bug. If you attempt to connect to a networked machine, such as doing: »> from appscript import * »> it = app(url=“eppc://user@machine.local/iTunes”) »> it.activate() Which works fine if you have a password, fails if there is no password. And the error reported is: RuntimeError: Can’t get terminology for application (aem.Application(url=‘eppc://user@machine.local/iTunes’)): CommandError -128: userCanceledErr Just because I haven’t put in a password, doesn’t mean I have cancelled the operation. I’m still working on a fix to get it to work.

I hate that when I type in a query to Google, like: appscript network It returns a heap of hits for AppleScript network. Fuck you Google. If I meant AppleScript, I’d fucking write AppleScript!

I use ecto for posting, which is pretty cool. I’d like to be able to have it so that it creates links automatically from URLs that I happen to write in. Thus http://www.google.com automatically becomes http://www.google.com enabling me to just enter a URL in a post. The best method for doing this would have to be regex:

((?<!(<a href="))(?<!(>))((https?|ftp://)|((mailto|aim|svn):)|(file:///)|((?<!://)www\.))[a-zA-Z0-9_$!&%?,#@'/.*+;:=~-]+\w)\.{0}

This will match a URL that isn’t already in an href link. Took me ages to work out. This will also match www.google.com. And not the dot at the end. I’m still working on code that will create links. I think a seperate regex for each type of URL might be useful.

Hamoa Beach • Gomez • How We Operate

I came across a strange issue today. I have written a script that adds acronym tags to a post created in ecto, and another that adds the currently playing iTunes track, as nice links to iTMS. However, the problem that arose is that the script wouldn’t run. I had the shebang line, and everything, but no joy. Then I noticed that I have upgraded my python installation to 2.5, but for some reason the /usr/bin/python was still pointed at 2.3 - but my interpreter run from the bash shell, or from Komodo was 2.5. This itself wouldn’t be too much of an issue, except I was using appscript, and I had only installed appscript into the 2.5 Python installation library. So, it was failing (way too silently, for my liking), and I couldn’t tell why. All fixed now, though.

Fly Me Away • Supernature • Goldfrapp