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Notices for 8th March 2013

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:02:45 GMT

To the cretin who just sent this message to me via the contact form, yes it does work, thank you.

Date: 8 Mar 2013 21:48:28 -0000
Subject: (CF) Knock knock
From: Me <anonymous@telcontar.net>

Does this still work?

Notices for 15th January 2012

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:04:17 GMT

I have maintained a collection of electronic music tracklists and cue sheets in /store/archive/tracklists for years. I have never been happy that Google search results for these are either plain text files with no formal heading, or snippets from the Apache directory listing.

A database-based solution would be trivial to implement, save for the complexities of dealing with a) incomplete tracklists and cues, and b) the need to maintain separate data in the database from the files on my hard drive.

As a quick late-night-hack workaround, I’ve written a directory parser that is able to format the list as a proper table complete with download links: electronic music tracklists and cue sheets archive. I’ve used title properties on the download links to help Google figure out what they point to. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than a virtual directory listing.

While I was at it, I also implemented syntax highlighting for the files, and a cue sheet reformatter. The original cue sheet files remain untouched for now, but for display purposes they are reformatted tidily.

Notices for 25th October 2009

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:49:52 GMT

I’ve liberally sprinkled the screenshots archive with over 25 new screenshots. I do wonder how many visitors, and how many fans, the screenshots archive actually has. In terms of vocal ones, less than the fingers on one hand, and never more than one person concurrently. This is even if “concurrent” is extended out as far as a month or even six months.

Notices for 14th June 2010

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:52:54 GMT

In August last year, Jonathan Livni alerted me to a few bugs in Batch-RegEx, one of which being a problem with global flags. I no longer remember what he said, and all the e-mail correspondence has gone missing, but I rediscovered the bug the other day at work. On inspecting the source code, I quickly tracked it down to a copy-and-paste error where ?{g} sets ?{d} instead.

No idea why I didn’t fix the issue ten months ago, but it’s resolved now.

Notices for 14th June 2010

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:54:09 GMT

A random glance at the Geek Culture forums serendipitously drew my attention to a fantastic remake of the game Gorillas built using Flash. It’s pixel-perfect, sounds good, is Open Source, and runs on almost any desktop computer regardless of operating system. Hats off to Ricky Road for a sterling effort.

I’ve been inspired to update the Gorillas Deluxe manual in HTML for much easier digestion, and I have made a few improvements to it at the same time. The game itself remains the same for now, at version 2.2.