A few days ago, my son found Surfing with the Alien by Satriani, master guitarist of all times. He had a real crush on the cover, asking what was this fun guy doing. Since he's been often asking for "Jo" to be played, and he actually likes it :)

Also since, I started to rediscover Satriani's discography I hadn't listen to for quite a couple of years now. And God this rocks. I just can't get enough of "Crushing Days" and "Summer Song". Getting back to learn how to play guitar is definitely a project of mine once I gain eternity (won't have time otherwise, I'm afraid)

If you like the sound of lightning speed distorted guitar, get your hears on these songs.

I found a lot of ways and hacks to integrate your delicious links into a page, but I wanted to fetch all links for a given set of tags, not just mine, so I wrote my own hack : introducing taga.licio.us, yet another del.icio.us php hack !

Taga.licio.us is a tag filter for del.icio.us : it produces a page with links from selected tags, allows to integrate del.icio.us links for one or more tags into an existing page, limited to a specified "freshness" (links of the day ? of the hour ?), and comes with gazillions of options. If you are a WordPress user, it is also able to directly post into your database to, say, run the script daily at fixed hour and print links on a given subject right into your blog.
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GMail stuff of the day : it seems an Atom Feed is planned to be implemented. At least a guy saw this in his inbox (Atom badge under his labels, which is not a fake)

GMail fact of the day : my account will last exactly 2000 days before it's filled up. Indeed, I opened it on June 16th, which was 108 days ago, and I'm now using 54 Mb. At such a rate, reaching 1000 Mb will exactly take 1000/54*108=2000 days. Funny :)

Update: I have today (04/10) the same Atom badge in my Gmail inbox. However, the feed itself is short : only a <modified> field…

Update 2: and again other features in my account !

Inspired by Extisp.icio.us, I've written a script that produces the same kind of results. Categories are randomly positionned, font size and colors show how many posts you have in each. Install the script, reload till you get something less random than pretty, then reload again :) Works best if you have a lot of categories with varying number of posts.

Get the script : either the .txt version and Save As .php, or copy & paste the colorized .php version into a blank file.

• wordpress-category-map.php (colorized html)
• wordpress-category-map.txt (save as .php)

Something I have difficulties to live without are regular expressions, particularly when it comes to searching / replacing files, in files, in scripts, in Excel spreadsheets, in directories, in whatever you can search in. Text editors using regular expressions, on Windows, are common (I'd recommend UltraEdit), but looking for files with regexp is another story.

On my main computer, running Windozh, I have installed the win32 port of most linux utils, aka Cygwin. So I have a Bash shell, like on my Linux server, and my searches are powered by 'find' and 'grep', which is great. This is plan A.

But for those who may find installing and using Cygwin too heavy, plan B, I just found something interesting : a perl script and a .reg hack to add Perl powers to your Windows searches. Looking for something has never been that easy :)

Links:

• Windows search with Perl
• Cygwin
• UltraEdit