Joe Jacobs

Tweets on 2008-11-22

Joe Jacobs — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:59:59 +0000

Akismet is incrementing itself everyday but there’s no spam in the spam queue??? #
hurrying to finish my last project for the year coz I really want to do the prep for my inverviews over the weekend #

OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7

Joe Jacobs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:38:49 +0000

A brilliant comparison between the OS X Snow Leopard and Microsuck Windows 7 by The Onion

Source: OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7 | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

WordPress spell check fix

Joe Jacobs — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:16:20 +0000

Barry of Clearskys.net has found a fix for the spellcheck error. It was a problem with the headers sent by the script. Commenting the encoding header did the trick

//header('Content-Encoding: UTF-8');

the header is in the file rpc.php which is in wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellcheck

Tweets on 2008-11-20

Joe Jacobs — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0000

omg firefox is sooo heavy on memory… #
I’m on the tube, stuck just before White City and the carriage I’m in is full of noisy babies…if this isn’t arse luck I don’t know wha … #
On my to check out Westfield, the new shopping complex in White City #

Let me google that for you

Joe Jacobs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:14:45 +0000

Haha this is good

Letmegooglethatforyou.com

For those who prefer to ask you instead of google it themselves…

TechWire: Why uploading photos to Flickr is against the law

Joe Jacobs — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:56 +0000

Thank God half the pictures I’ve uploaded are of family members so the possibility of a law suit is very low…I Hope!

TechWire: Why uploading photos to Flickr is against the law

pyTwit

Joe Jacobs — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:07:27 +0000

I’ve decided to call my Twitter app pyTwit. I’ve searched the Twitter Fan Wiki list of apps and there doesn’t seem to be a pyTwit yet so I’ve decided to claim the name (hey it rhymes!)

Anyways, I did a version 0.1.1 which was basically adding the functionality for posting tweets but I’ve also added many more features (like displaying multiple timelines and a command system for using the different features) and redesigned the code structure so I’ve decided to call this one version 0.2

You can check it out here. I’ve also included a compiled Windows executable in the archive for those who are unfortunate enough to be running using Microsuck Windows…me included

My own Twitter app

Joe Jacobs — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:49:21 +0000

OK I know we really don’t need yet another Twitter app but I’m doing this to practice programming in python. This is version 0.1 so I’ll definately add more stuff as I go along.

I’m using the XML feed from the Twitter REST API. I know there are modules to process the XML feed (like minidom and sax) but I decided to write my own method for processing the feed for educational purposes. My method won’t work with any feed (yet) but it’ll work fine for the Twitter feed.

At the moment, the app will only get your friends timeline and display it for you. I’ll add more functionality later this week if I have the time. In the mean time please try it out. All comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback are welcomed.

twitter.py

Tweets on 2008-11-14

Joe Jacobs — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0000

yay got an interview with Imperial College on 3 Dec. Hope it goes better than Bristol! #

Phoenix Mars Lander: This is My Farewell Transmission From Mars

Joe Jacobs — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:53:46 +0000

The last transmission from the Pheonix Mars Lander:

http://gizmodo.com/5082385/this-is-my-farewell-transmission-from-mars

and a little tribute to it…

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm