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Because I forgot to blog these pictures, and because I had never blogged on a February 29th:

Enlightened Umbrella

The Gemini Trees

Self #two

Russian comic featuring Herr Schicklgruber and Komrade Dzhugashvili (with his thick Georgian accent), superheroes-style.

Google “I’m feeling lucky” boxer shorts. You don’t want to wear those on a date with Clint Eastwood.
(via Webfroot)

Forest of Plastic
(This is not my hairbrush.)

Quick URI grabber script for XChat: urigrabber.py.
Simply because the built-in URI grabber sucks: it doesn’t log URIs with their context, and it’s gone when you close XChat.
Screenshot (tail -f ~/xchat-uri-feed.txt)

As Joi Ito talks about the emerging Iranian blogging scene (encoding Farsi as utf-8), and just as Olivier Meunier talks about adding utf-8 support to DotClear, one may wonder “What about WordPress?”

Up to this day, WordPress continuated the b2 way of using iso-8859-1 as default. You could set a $admin_area_charset variable to ‘utf-8′ or whatever charset you wanted, but you still had to hardcode your preferred charset in the default template (and the comments popup’s) and in the login/register area.
No more hardcoding. Yesterday support for choosing your charset has been added to WordPress’s incoming 1.1 release, so now it’s only a matter of going straight to the General Options screen.

( I’d like to take this occasion to congratulate the WP team for their options handling. While I thought it was overkill, it’s actually very well thought: adding this option was only a matter of adding a row to the ‘wp_options’ table in the database, and editing files to make them use $blog_charset instead of iso-8859-1. The options backend takes care of validating the input too, so no more “let’s make sure they entered a string of that max length” or “let’s make sure it’s a number and not a string”, since you defined these in the row you added to the options table. )

From extreme social networking to extreme walking to extreme skinny dipping to extreme wedding to extreme cooking to extreme babysitting to extreme ironing to extreme sandwiching.

iTunes hates Aquarion and screwed up at Morbus’s.
Rhythmbox likes me.

Mark Bernstein laments the lack of “an open-source, public utility” to convert a given Atom feed into an RSS equivalent.

Antonio Cavedoni delivers a solution: an Atom 0.3 to RSS 1.0 converter, and made the XSL stylesheet public for whoever wants to provide a similar service or send improvements.

So there it is, public and opensource.

So, I figured that I wouldn’t really get motivated to work on this weblog until I actually blog publicly on it. Consider this weblog opened, then.
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