Saturday, June 10, 2006

Google Video: Movers & Shakers

War ja klar, dass es in dem neuen Ranking bei Google Video eigentlich nur um Fußball geht.
Ich hab allerdings eine erfreuliche Anomalie entdeckt: Diablo 2 auf Platz 10.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

How was your spam today?

As I checked my mail on sunday morning I saw something special - spam.
Okay, spam is not so special per se, but this one got through my spam filter.
Thunderbirds spamfilter is quite powerful, so I wondered how this mail landed in my inbox.
Looking more closely I saw that there is a quote from "The Hobbit" or some other book of the "Lord of the rings" saga below the usual \/!@GRA crap. Here is the complete text from the mail:

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V " A G R A
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L E V " T R A
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As I skipped through my spam folder I found several other mails like this. Maybe I get the complete story if I wait long enough.

Monday, June 05, 2006

*Updated* comment collapser for Slashdot

The first thing I discovered in the morning was the new Slashdot layout. How ugly!
It's not the layout I'm complaining about, but my GreaseMonkey script to collapse the comments was broken and didn't look quite right.
It took me about half an hour to fix it, but the I saw how nice the menu to the left slides if you click on the small triangles.
To make a long story short, I spent half the day implementing this behaviour in my script.
Unfortunately UserScripts.org is down again, so I uploaded the script here.
Click here to see the script in action.