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My delicious feed brought to attention (what I eventually found out was) a simple scriptaculous (yes, two of these buggers on the same line) gallery script named Dhonishow. I was (understandably) curious as to what this was, (and wtf was it doing on a .de domain) especially considering the fact that Dhoni has failed yet again (he got out earlier tonight slicing to third man :/).

Ah (the joys of parantheses :P).

Anyways, dhonishow.de informs me that a Dhoni is not just a word (and now a meme) that signifies an overly hirsute, milk guzzling, inconsistent cricketer. Instead, it refers to:

My previous post on playing m4a files using Winamp is no longer useful as the 3ivx plug-in expires after a while. Therefore, please use the following solution:

• Uninstall 3ivx if you have it installed from my previous post.
• Visit Rarewares and download the MP4 Input Plugin for Winamp.
• Unzip the file (in_mp4.zip) and move the resulting in_mp4.dll file to your Winamp plug-ins folder, which commonly resides at C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins.

There's monthly, bimonthly and quarterly.. So what's the word to indicate "every four months"? Apparently, nobody knows.. but the choices were Tetramonthly (which sounds horrible), triannual (which indicates three years rather than a third of a year.. i.e, it's the same as triennial) and lastly, quadrimonthly, which, atleast to yours truly, makes the most sense. Moreover, if Big Blue can use it, so can Quillem :)

-K

Came across some quaint photographs of India (Madras, Hyderabad and Secunderabad) taken between 1945 and 1946 taken by an Englishman. You've got to love the "mosque" :)

-K

Title says it all.

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I just finished reading a truly hilarious (and rather dated) ">interview on LJ with Larry Wall, Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Perl project. I'm not a Perl user, but this guy is one of those chaps who just ooze humour.

Linux Journal incidentally runs on Drupal :)

-K

[quote]After more than a year of development we are ready to release Drupal 4.7.0 to the world. More than five years, 13 major releases, 30+ servicing firms employing 100+ Drupal professionals, 300+ third party modules, and over 55,000+ Drupal powered sites later, Drupal 4.7.0 is finally here and it rocks![/quote]

Woohoo!

More here.

Expect to see some updates here soon!

-K

Almost makes me want to go and get myself a Mac. This uses Parallels and Virtue.

Rock!

Jeroen, this one is for you :P

I'm one of those paranoid "empty-trash-every-5_minutes/arrange-icons-by-type-every-5_minutes" freaks and funnily enough, I've never actually noticed the "Show desktop items" option :o Anyways, the Orion Nebula is now viewable in all its glory on my desktop.

-K

Another patch that didn't get into 4.7 was a simple (yet important) one that created an index for the locale database. The locale module can suck you dry in terms of DB calls, so this can provide a huge boost for a site using it. The index is added on a BLOB field named 'source' with a length of 30-40 (AFAIK, this number was just picked at random).

-K