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From the blog: Pull Attachments from Incoming Mail with Perl
For a new project I've been working on, I needed to pull the image attachments from all incoming mail, store them separately. I couldn't find any snippets online for this so I had to create my own. Here's what I came up with. As always, it's a bit rough but is a [...]
From the blog: Receiving and Sending Text Messages With PHP and IMAP
I've had a lot of requests to turn some of my Twitter apps into mobile services. Most companies, like Twitter itself, use Short Codes (like 40404) to accept and send txt/sms messages. Short codes are very expensive (the cheapest solution I found started at $500 per month for a randomized short code of [...]
From the blog: A design in the works
Just to keep my blog semi updated (seems I'm just letting this place collect dust), here's what I'm working on for today. This design won't be used. I liked where it was going, the client didn't. Figured I'd share it before I toss it. Also, I'm working on something new for this blog. It [...]
From the blog: An Update on the House
After a week or so of very hard work, we decided trying to clean everything up and restore the house was a futile attempt. Everything we really wanted to save/couldn't afford to replace immediately was cleaned up, boxed, and stored at my brother's house. After a couple weeks of cleaning and boxing, the [...]
From the blog: Push RSS feed to your Twitter feed
A friend needed to push/send items from an RSS feed to his Twitter account. Here's the code in a nice .zip file. Very simple and rough, but it gets the job done nicely. Feel free to add to/modify. http://kevinsmithdesigns.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/KSDtwitter.zip
"Cute, fuzzy...let's show it to a friend!"
At this moment, that video has just a dash over 8 million views. That's not really any news for a youtube video. Hell, Avril Lavigne's video for "Girlfriend" has over 118 million views (Most Popular YouTube Videos, Alltime).
Back to the kitten video -- I was in my own little world, staring and smiling at the playful lil kittens pouncing around when it hit me: "How many other slobs are blobbing in front of their computers doing the same exact thing?" So, I did some quick math.
8 million views for a video that is roughly 1.5 minutes.
That's 12,000,000 minutes of wasted time. That's 200,000 hours gone. 8,333 days of human life lost. That's 22.8 YEARS of life that can never be lived again. I'm only 21 years old, these cute little kittens, no more than a month or so old, have consumed more human life that I have lived.
Avril Lavgine's crappy video, at 3:48 in length and 118,768,725 views, has consumed a whopping 27,079,269,300 seconds; 451,321,155 minutes ; 7,522,019 hours ; 313,417 days; 858.67 YEARS of life. Someone *please* correct my math if I have made a mistake. This is just hard for me to believe. I had never really stopped to think about how much time is wasted.
Shouts & Hollers is an online "ezine" of sorts that is published by Charleston, WV, area bloggers. Bill Gardner got in contact with me to answer a few questions regarding a recent sideproject of mine. Read it here.
Thanks Bill!
My roommate lives off Chinese takeout and McDonalds. Here's a menu with an amusing typo.
Going home for the first time in a while this weekend. Happy Birthday, Dad!
I'm upgrading wordpress so things might be hairy for a few hours..
Just upgraded from wordpress 2.3 to 2.5 -- the admin area has a few changes. The biggest change is the style and placement of everything. I like it and will adjust quickly but I really wish I could move my category selection box to the side nav again...I hate having it at the bottom. Other than that, I'm pleased...I really like the new autoupdate feature for plugins (is this new or have I overlooked it for this long?)...
FaxZero.com - If you're making a casual fax, this is the way to go. It's free, it's online, and it's private. The only downside is the ad that is displayed on the coversheet. Other than that, the fax is 100% normal. Another great thing is it makes multiple delivery attempts so if the fax fails on the first attempt, a second try will come in about five minutes (tested this myself and love it).
The Ultimate Steal - If you're a college student, you can receive a discount on the Microsoft Office Bundle. I haven't tried this yet but I'm definitely going to in the near future. It's Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $60.
JumpCut.com - For those fond of the "For Dummies" series, this is for you. JumpCut is a service from Yahoo! that provides online video editing with some really cool features and it's 100% free (even the storage space). I use it for all my small projects and just general playing.
IBuyJunkMail.com - From Steve Rhode. I used to talk to this guy every morning at Concord University before I went to class. He's a pretty nice fellow and this experiment of his might be worth your time if you're in need of cash quick.
Skip Forced Faceboook Invites When Adding New Apps (add this link to your quick links bar!)
Someone on Twitter mentioned that they'd like to be notified via Twitter when they received an email. Considering GMail offers an Atom feed for your inbox, I figure that GMail is the best place to start.
So here's my problem: the Atom feed, obviously, requires authentication and SSL (correct me if I'm wrong). No matter how I go about parsing the RSS feed, I can't seem to even read the Atom feed (using my own code -- a FEW other online readers work).
Any suggestions appreciated...