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Entries for week beginning January 16, 2005

January 22, 2005

Monster Munch

Monster Munch

Another treat unleashed from my mum's suitcase: 28 bags of Monster Munch (22 of which are Pickled Onion flavour. Hurrah!)

Super Noodles

Super Noodles

A treat from the UK, thanks to my mum -- 20 packets (in various flavours) of Bachelor's Super Noodles.

January 21, 2005

IDErithmetic

This week’s discovery: Eclipse + PyDev + SubClipse = A damned fine $0 IDE for Python development.

Possibly better than some that cost $300.

TiVo To Go MPEG2 Decrypting

Well, that didn’t take long.

Hiding referer spam in AWStats

Inspired by derefspam.pl, and my own issues with referer spam, I’ve hacked together a patch to AWStats(AWStats – Free log file analyzer for advanced statistics (GNU GPL).) which will cause it to ignore referer URLs which match the MT-Blacklist Comment Spam blacklist.

Grab the patch from SourceForge.

(AWStats users might also be interested in my other two patches, which allow it to report RSS readers: Patch 1, Patch 2)

January 20, 2005

Motorola Ojo Personal Video Phone

Those ridiculous looking video-phones on 24? They’re a real product.

January 18, 2005

Supper With The Stars

Liven up your next dinner party with a Z-list Brit “celebrity” guest.

Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread

Form an orderly line, laydeez.

Reasons I like the inertnet: Number 96 in an occasional series

Being able to track my mum’s flight from my desktop so that I can get to the airport at the right time to meet her, regardless of whether the flight is early or late. Hurrah!

January 17, 2005

SpellBound - Spellchecker for Firefox and the Mozilla Suite

Why haven’t I found this before? Speelchuck your posts/webmails/form submissions right in Firefox.

saute-swinish