William Reardon’s Blog

Seems someone doesn’t like my day job.

At long, long last Sang’s Links: The Web Version lives!

Sang has this uncanny ability to find the wierdest shit on the web. Sure everyone find something here and there. Everyone finds the movie with the horse. Sang finds it on a consistent basis. It’s like golf. Everyone hits a great shot here and there, but not everyone is Tiger Woods. Sang is Tiger Woods. Well, aside from the 1/2 black part. And he’s not rich. Nor can he perform any cool golf club tricks. But you get my point.

Technically, what happens behind the scenes is an email to MT gateway. The gateway is basically procmail, XML-RPC, and some Perl to glue it all together.

The downside to it is that the blogger XML-RPC format doesn’t support a title parameter oddly enough. I got around it with some basic template hacking. Hopefully we can fix that latter.

In surprising news, your head beat your ass.

Launched during this week’s Macworld, Apple has a very funny ad to mark the arrival of it’s new 17″ laptop.

I’ve had a completely functional IBM Thinkpad for about a year or two (as well as a recently purchased desktop), so it really hard to jusity the purchase of a new laptop, just to have a Mac again… but, man…