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Gravatar and the Broken Image Icon

In: , , , , On: 2005 / 03 / 20 Short URL: http://ozh.in/54

I'm currently redesigning this site and I think I'm going to give Gravatar a go. Something I've been worrying about is the fact that Gravatar is centralized, so when its site happens to be (momentarily and exceptionnally) offline, displaying a gravatar shows the ugly broken image icon.

So, I've come up with a simple and CSS way to avoid this. Display a proper avatar when available, display no image when offline.

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Calvin & Hobbes Bash Script Of The Day

In: , , , , , , On: 2005 / 02 / 28 Short URL: http://ozh.in/4w

First, and probably last, Calvin and Hobbes Bash Script of the Day :

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code

  1. for year in `seq 85 95`; do
  2.   for month in `seq 1 12 | sed -e 's/^\(.\)$/0\1/'`; do
  3.     for day in `seq 1 31 | sed -e 's/^\(.\)$/0\1/'`; do
  4.       wget -b "http://www1.stfunoob.com/calvin_hobbes/$year/ch$year$month$day.gif";
  5.     done;
  6.   done;
  7. done;

… or manually browse the complete Calvin and Hobbes archive from 85 to 95, one strip a day, while it's online. Copyright infrigement ? You did not read this here.

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