Ben Crox on Blog

I bet #gmail will sky rocket in twitter today ( 2009 Feb 24 )

( the above is a dynamic graph, if you are reading RSS, try to look at this link instead )

Here is a story of a lazy man.

1. 2 min b4, I want to make a short url service for my own.
2. 1 min b4, I surf for solution, and someone suggested you may not have a database.
3. I have a (few) database(s), but I am willing to pump it, what then ?
4. I don’t even want to setup accounts, what then ?
5. 30sec later, I add this line to my dot-htaccess:

RewriteRule ^is\.gd/(.*) http://is.gd/$1 [QSA,L]

( of course I have deleted it after trial… and, you can replace the first clause with something like ^\.(.*) and any other capable service in the second clause )

6. What then? Before I delete the RewriteRule, http://bencrox.info/is.gd/evil is equivalent to http://is.gd/evil . And that works

Yes I know, it maybe fairly simple to setup something like http://bencrox.is.bad/blah , and get rid of all those spam urls others pump in and taint your DN ( because of yours own evil/unauthorized endorsement… ). But if you are lazy enough and being a console man, a one liner RewriteRule is always your candy.

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What’s more ?

Hmm… say you know how to play with curl ( and any cgi stuff ) , you can redirect the short url to your cgi and RegEx match / show preview(s) / do any evil restructuring ( perhaps by … jQuery ? ) to check and claim others resources.

Conclusion ? You don’t need to learn any API to play with, in order to add functionality with your DN. ModRewrite is the ultimate answer.

This is how I learn my i-phone by accident.
Just type in some note, and wonder why the font is changing.
What then ? Search Google . So I can also get rid of the “handwritten” style font in i-phone.

OK, by reading the above, I want to know how other do Screen Cap.
1. Ready ?
2. Search !
3. Go through results until getting things done.
Here is one entry about how to do screen cap in iphone.

Wow!

Now I am used to subscribe podcast from the University of Tokyo and many U.S. colleges. Perhaps I should add some language learning podcasts later.

What a shame to find course podcasting from local educations institutes. Yes they do have a few test cases, but it seems they just hit and run.