I have written a small hack to play more with a nice feature of Coppermine, the gallery script I am using here : the keywords you give to each picture.

The script adds, to the search page for example, a list of all keywords used, and the number of pictures for each (see my search page). I thought it made keywords very similar to the "tag" feature you have in Gmail or del.icio.us, if that makes sense to you.
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I came across this about 4 years ago in a Perl mailing list, and I thought it was pretty. The "translation" of this punctuation "poem" is :

I've found another one tonight, as pretty as the first one (and probably as old as well, by the way)
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Doh. This is one of these days, when you discover something that has existed for 30 years already, and something so cool that you suspect everyone on earth already knows about it : I've just found you can monitor projects on Sourceforge :-P

I bet it'll cost me a few spam from OSDN Network, but I'm now monitoring Azureus, Coppermine, Gallery 2 (the one with MySQL support), phpMyAdmin and, a bit too late since I've been hacked and exploited 2 days ago on my primary site, phpBB2.

Been comment spammed again, this time with 380 comments about casino and poker. I am or have been trying several anti-spam plugins, but alas trying to protect from spam is an endless and hopeless war, it's just a matter of how much time you have to delete crap.
I think I will probably stop pinging update services such as pingomatic before all this crap ruins my blogging experience…

One thing really silly is the way digital cameras name their files : dsc00001.jpg or something similar, which is quite annoying when you try to sort old pictures. So I made a small bash script that renames every picture with a more useful filename : 041131-001.jpg for example. To do so, I'm using a Perl script I've made, datemodif, which outputs a modification date in various formats, but I wanted to do a more portable script, using only Bash and default GNU utils, but not Perl.

After some testing, here is the function I've added to my .bash_profile :

Sample output :

w00t ! All done. I've upgraded the version of WordPress this site uses, from 1.2 to some nightly build of the current alpha, 1.3-alpha5. Everything was more or less smooth, I'm always a bit stressed when it comes to modifying the whole blog :P

Version 1.3 has really nice improvements here and there in the admin section. I'll go now for some live testing, hope everything will work ok :)

Mon fils Oscar a sur son lit un machin qui projette au plafond des images de nounours et compagnie. Il l'allume tout seul, c'est parti pour 10 minutes au bout desquelles ça s'arrête automatiquement, et le bambin passe sa nuit à allumer le bazar. Seul problème, l'appareil marche sur piles, et un jour que j'étais fort épris d'indépendance et de liberté, je me suis dit qu'il y en avait marre de recharger un jeu de piles tous les deux jours. Seulement, après avoir épluché moult catalogues et pris force renseignements, je suis désormais en mesure de conclure à une évidente collusion malhonnête entre fabriquants de Lumichoses et marchands de piles : ça n'existe pas sur secteur. Scandaleux non ?

J'ai donc pris les mesures qui s'imposent. Je suis allé acheter un transfo, du fil, et muni d'un fer à souder qui ne m'avait encore jamais servi, j'ai bricolé, ce qui place d'emblée 2004 dans la liste des années exceptionnelles. Une heure plus tard au moins, ça sentait le plastique fondu dans tout le salon mais j'ai vaincu. C'est laid, y'a des trous partout à l'arrière, du fil qui dépasse, de la coulure de soudure, mais ça marche sur prise maintenant \o/ Une grande victoire de l'homme sur le bricolage.

La semaine prochaine, tout sur le scandale des Audi Baby vendus dans le monde entier avec seulement 2 fréquences disponibles et sur lesquels on entend donc les gosses de la moitié du quartier.

Two interesting links about King Sized photography :
* Gigapxl: this is ZI digital camera I want for Christmas. Forget your poor 6 million pixels DSC, we are talking here about 1000 million :) The gallery is pretty.
* The 2.5 gigapixel photo: not exactly a photography, but a picture made up from 600 pictures. Zooming in the image with the Flash tool is quite jaw dropping when you realize how deep you can go into details.

And I thought my panorama from 6 overlapping pictures was ubercool … :)