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hey look… osnews.com got a facelift!

hit esc to stop the animated gifs…
that’s just a little bit annoying isn’t it? sometimes a bash script i wrote would wget a favicon.ico file from a site, convert the ico to a gif, and instead of getting a 16×16 image i’d get what you see here… a 32×32 blinking gif.

the fix is rather simple. i just had to add -size 16×16 and -resize 16×16 to my convert command and tada! the image is now properly sized and not causing my eyes to bug out.

i had to sit here and grin at myself when i first went to fix my script. i pull up convert’s manpage and the first thing i saw was this. i’m really hoping that the manpage was updated way, way, way after i originally wrote my script. or else, this is a bad case of rtfm.

i know how much you loved the animated gif, i just found another one in the bonqlinks image pool… enjoy.

man i can’t wait till this post is hidden deep in the database somewhere.

i’ve done zip with this site since i took it down for maintenance… oops. i’ve also noticed a serious slowdown in how well connected i am to the internet at this point in time. from cox internet outages, keeping my focus on work, chilling with 2 hyperactive dogs, working on geek nite projects, to most importantly enjoying some damn good home cooking and watching xtine kick some ass in elebits… i haven’t been keeping up with any of my rss feeds or favorite sites.

a big part of that is the lack of bonqlinks. sure i could have written it in javascript which updated itself with the hit count if i really wanted to be a dork about it… but eh, while i’ve been deep in code lately… i really didn’t feel like producing much code myself. i miss actually getting my hands dirty on kernel guts and recompiling kernels to get that last damn module to load or figure out how to get an experimental patch to patch clean.

i also miss playing around with web applications. i like wordpress, but i think i’m gonna have to go look at a php framework to do some sandbox work in. bleh, i guess i need to get back to figuring out how to cram tdo mini forms 7.x or even 8.x on a wordpress 2.2 install. i guess i could play around with the cpanel to backup stuff just in case the upgrade is wonky.

you’d really think it’d be easier to have a form post a new entry into a moderated queue in wordpress. yeah, no… not really all that easy. and why is there no actual age verification plugin out there for wordpress?