Stupid Idea?

Posted by on July 19, 2009 7 comments
Blogging For Dummies
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random thought from irc :P

[d1g1t] I just thought of an awesome blogging platform!
[d1g1t] weird
[d1g1t] but awesome
[d1g1t] plain html pages!
[d1g1t] we just write posts as html in text files in a folder, a program updates pages/links when we add a new file!
[d1g1t] one dynamic file for comments maybe
[d1g1t] rally rally fast
[d1g1t] the program could compress images and js too
[d1g1t] db-less
[d1g1t] might get chaotic for terribly large sites
[d1g1t] if people use comments. otherwise blazing fast!
* d1g1t patents it

Would it work? and what are the downsides?

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Google Groups: Indian WebComics

Posted by on November 5, 2008 2 comments
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Saad Akhtar suggested we use mailing lists to share new Indian webcomics we discover, so that people don’t regularly have to keep checking THIS post. So here it is!

Google Groups
Subscribe to IndianWebComics
Email:

Visit this group

http://groups.google.com/group/indianwebcomics

You can either join by entering your email in the above Box or you can follow it via RSS or Atom feeds. Note that you won’t be able to reply to mails if don’t join the group.

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Get the Cricket score on Linux Command Line or Conky

Posted by on November 1, 2008 10 comments
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I was trying to find a way to get live cricket scores on my desktop. I could have used retreived rss feeds every few minutes, but I found a simpler way on a mailing list Here, a python script by Sridhar.

I modified it a bit to fit my horizontal conky, and also the display format.

Click on image to see complete screenshot:

Download cricscore.py
 and place it in your home folder.

To get the live score in the terminal, just type

python cricscore.py

If you want it to show in conky, just add this line to your .conkyrc file where you want it to show

${execi 30 python cricscore.py}

that will update the score every 30 seconds

Anyway, heres my .conkyrc script: .conkyrc. (for the rhythmbox script, check here