Broadcast message from root@psrv (pts/1) (Sun Dec 24 23:10:37 2006):

noooooooo i can still server web pages dont kill me…
The system is going down for system halt NOW!

FINALLY got around to migrating all the configuration to falco. psrv is now out of server – replaced by a much more powerful system. you should feel a difference when loading websites – almost 3x the processing power… and a lot less noise .

what will happen to this url?  it kind of doesn’t make sense anymore!

opera trial was released today it seems.

good

• plays flash
• renders pages accurately
• full javascript/everything you’d expect from opera

bad

• doesn’t run at fullscreen res – ugly black border
• zoom breaks sometimes
• can’t navigate with d-pad
• can’t hide toolbar
• no gestures!

even though its named a “trial”, i would call this a beta.  or an alpha.

thunderbird 2.0b1 is niice.  i’ve been using it at work all week and am now convinced that i should swap my home client from outlook2003.  as it was the last day at work for a week or so, i spent some time tidying up my desktop.  nice and clean it is .  its amazing how much more of a pleasure it is to work when you have a nicely setup pc.

seasons greetings to all, and stuff.  enjoy the stinking hot weather while you can!

wii waited for the shops to open.

wii risked being late for work, and battled the many people racing to be at the front of the pre-order line.

but wii have wiis.

first impressions after playing for about 6 hours?  awesomeness.  hey, i would love to go into more detail, but i have a temple to tackle in zelda.  and a tennis game to settle when phill arrives.

anyone who has a wii but isn’t listed in this listing, comment with ur friend code so i can add you!

in a stroke of boredom last night, i decided it was time to tidy up the mess that is my drama collection. when i say mess, i mean the filenames which are tagged my hundreds of release groups in different ways. as this process done manually is horribly time-consuming and i’d probably fall asleep in the process, i decided to code up a little script to handle it for me.

results are quite satisfying .

it handles all files which are in the order that would seem like a series of episodes. it skips specials and stuff like that, although maybe i could add such handling in at a later stage. if anyone is interested in the script then i might tidy it up a touch and release it. you can basically drop it in a directory and double-click for no-interaction instant effects :d.

update: as people seem to want this, i have cleaned it up and made it available here. basically download, drag to the parent folder of all your series (as in your main ./Anime/ folder rather than a single series subfolder) and double-click. if you feel unsafe running my code on your computer… well you shouln’t be here in the first place :p. enjoy, and report any bugs/improvements.

update2: well i changed a few things, mainly to meet ds’s needs.  just a note that if the pattern matching doesn’t work as youd like it to, just edit the regexp string at about line 60.  i have kept it quite conservative to avoid unwanted matches, but as it always takes the first match from the filename, you could probably open this up to an any-character match in most cases.  but it wfm as is *shrug*.

Wii to be released in 8hrs 56mins 51secs