Inactivity

Blog is going into hibernation. Blog will not be waking up until it receives a kiss from the Handsome Prince.

Which may be never.

Opera Unite

I'm advocating it.

What is Opera Unite?

First of all I will have to explain what Opera is. Opera is an Internet suite. What this phrase of marketing jargon means is that it is a web browser (think Firefox), a mail client (think Outlook Express) and chat client (think mIRC) all in one. It also handles torrents, but I won't count on it. Opera has lovely widgets, and its interface is customizable as well, with quite a number of beautiful themes available for download (downloading them, up to applying the themes is all streamlined).

And Opera is the fastest, most responsive browser I've tried. And I've tried Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

Opera alone stands its ground for advocacy. But then there's the Unite part. What Unite provides you is a streamlined interface for hosting your own content.

First is the File Sharing tool, which allows you to share with your friends files straight from a folder on your computer. You just put your stuff inside your folder, give your friends the password, and they can offload whatever you put inside, with no interaction required from you

Next is the fridge. What this is is a notice board, where you and your friends can leave messages for each other

Then comes my favorite feature, the Media Player. Like file sharing, you put your misic and video files into a folder. But instead of downloading, you get to preview the music and pictures of your friends from your browser.

The photo sharing service is more of the same, for your photo files

The Lounge is a place like your IRC chatroom, except prettified. And your friends do not need to run IRC too!

The Web server introduces people to running their own web pages. However, there is no PHP or other scripting capability so I guess that severely limits what one can do. Still, it's awesome for a single person to host their own homepage.

Xenoglossia

I upon my island, looking at you
Yet I'm little better than one in zoos
Words from my mouth are rather squawks to ears
My coos all seem to elicit your fears

Melancholy, Vacant Hope

Crossing the bridge I feel... oh
If only I were to drift
Along the thread of blue and green
In a boat and leave

But... oh woe
I am dragged to enter, enter an Emerald City
Where people at their zenith play games with pen, paper and people
Drilling into their minds theory separated from reality
As zealots docile devour their textbooks

That we may someday ride the hot air balloon
That brings us to the clouds of success
That we may return to
That carefree life of our childhood

That is all hot air

Perl Hello script

#! /usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Hello World!\n";
my $string = "Cloud";
my $number = 9;
my $lil_float = 2e-12;
print '"$string $number": ', "$string $number\n";
print '$lil_float: ', $lil_float, "\n";
print '$lil_float+1: ', $lil_float+1, "\n";
my @books = ( "Pride and Prejudice",
              "Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde",
              "To Kill a Mockingbird",
              "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
              "Oliver Twist",
              "Middlemarch",
              "Le Petit Prince"
            );
my %auth_book = ( 'Austen'  => "Pride and Prejudice",
                  'Salten'  => "Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde",
                  'Lee'     => "To Kill a Mockingbird",
                  'Twain'   => "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
                  'Dickens' => "Oliver Twist",
                  'Eliot'   => "Middlemarch",
                  'Saint Expuery' => "Le Petit Prince"
                );
my $bk_ref_ref = [ \@books, \%auth_book ];
print '@books: ', @books,"\n";
print '%auth_book: ', %auth_book,"\n";
print '"@books": ', "@books\n";
print '"%auth_book": ', "%auth_book\n";
print '"@books[2,3]": ', "@books[2,3]\n";
print '"@auth_book{\'Saint Expuery\', \'Lee\'}": ',
      "@auth_book{'Saint Expuery', 'Lee'}\n";
print '$bk_ref_ref: ', "$bk_ref_ref\n";
print '"@$bk_ref_ref": ', "@$bk_ref_ref\n";
print '"@{@$bk_ref_ref[0]}": ', "@{@$bk_ref_ref[0]}\n";
print '"$bk_ref_ref->[0]->[0]": ', "$bk_ref_ref->[0]->[0]\n";
print '"@{$$bk_ref_ref[1]}{\'Eliot\', \'Twain\'}": ',
      "@{$$bk_ref_ref[1]}{'Eliot','Twain'}\n";

Perl Quick Reference

There is one here