Friday·07·April·2006
Today is ircbot-day //at 18:33 //by abe
Today is ircbot-day. Let’s worship all those ircbots who serve us with information, announce new stories or submissions, keep an eye on our servers, annoy dkg, mirabile and others ;-), or just turn someone’s head.
So today I think of
- jabba — for announcing every Symlink story, announcing any Symlink submission to the Symlink editors and for bothering anyone who says “re” on #symlink or #lugs. ;-)
- gaby — for never letting an eye from any of the ETHZ Departement of Physics’ computers and for probably being the most sexy chatteress on #lugs. ;-)
- MelOne — for always knowing what we said on #symlink.
- blogbot — for remembering all our blogs and a little backlog on #blosxom
- captu (aka Copyra Pasta) — for helping us to not paste a lot of waste into #lugs.
- blutbot — for I just can’t remember what he did and what he could do. Maybe I also don’t want to know.
- And of course also a thanks to all these NickServs, ChanServs, MemoServs and StatServs out there in the net for their ubiquitous services.
Thanks to all of you not war-making ircbots for existing. Without you,
IRC would be less funny. ;-)
Tagged as: #blosxom, #lugs, #symlink, ETH Zürich, IRC, ircbot, ircbot-day, LUGS, Other Blogs, Symlink, wigwam
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Thursday·02·March·2006
Some new plugins, XFN, Technorati and yigg.de //at 02:09 //by abe
After blathijs and I today talked a little bit about blosxom plugins on the #blosxom IRC channel, I installed the listplugins plugin. Since I’m a perfectionist in some things, I had to configure it to link every plugin I use to it’s web page or source.
While going through my plugin list, I noticed that there were three additional plugins I wrote myself and of which I thought I should share:
- acronyms works similar to and is losely based on Fletcher Penney’s autolinks but instead of setting links it marks configurable keywords as abbreviation or acronym and show their expansion when hovering over the keyword (all using standard XHTML).
- xml_ping_generic is based on xml_ping_weblogs and can ping an arbitrary number of URLs to be pinged with the weblog.com’s XML RPC ping API. By default it pings weblogs.com and technorati.com.
- date_rfc822 is nothing else than the 822-date command (which returns a date in RFC 822 conform format and is written in Perl, too) wrapped into a blosxom plugin. Work similar to date_fullname. I use it for including <pubDate> tags in the RDF.
All plugins are published under the same open source license, they initially came with.
In other news…
I started using XFN, the XHTML Friends Network, at least the blogroll, and created accounts at Technorati and at yigg.de, a German Digg.com clone formerly respective yet still known as digg.de
Now playing: Battle Without Honor or Humanity — Hotei Tomayasu (from
the Kill Bill Soundtrack)
Tagged as: #blosxom, Acronyms, Blosxom, Blosxom Plugin, date_rfc822, Digg, Hacks, Now Playing, Open Source, Other Blogs, Perl, RFC, RFC 822, Technorati, XFN, xml_ping_generic, yigg.de
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