java -jar Azureus2.jar --ui=console

Things will kick off, and now you have a remotely accessable azureus on port 6886 (by default). I’ve setup my firewall rules so that I can access the webui from work, just in case. Oh, I guess you’ll want to configure the webui with a username and password as well. You can do that in the options for plugin when azureus is running in GUI mode.

Once its all setup, you’ll get something this:

Then you’ll be able to stop, start, upload, remove torrents remotely. Nice

It’ll grab the title, description and category (which it’ll use as a tag) for the post and save it to del.icio.us using the del.icio.us api. Its pretty basic right now (this is just an initial release) but I guess I’ll try and make it so when you press the “save to del.icio.us” button, you get a popup, so that you can then change the tags, description, etc.

It works properly on the front pages, but in other sections, it’ll grab some pretty weird stuff for the tags, so precede with caution!

The script can get found and installed from here.

I’ve got quite a few links dugg now, and quite a few of them I couldn’t be arsed tagging again in del.icio.us. I guess I could export my dugg links using the provided rss feed, but then, how would I know whether I’ve already tagged it on del.icio.us? I guess del.icio.us doesn’t really care, but I’m more concerned about speed. Having to download a stack of links that I might have tagged, then uploading them again might be a bit time consuming.

I guess the ideal situation would be if digg.com just automatically posted to del.icio.us each time you dugg something.

For the time being, perhaps I could extract the dugg links using the rss feed, do some wrangling of the text and then submit the links using the del.icio.us api for posting.

Update: Looks like digg.com can output pretty much all your dugg links using javascript. I lose the date of the digg though, which is something that the rss feed has (although it only seems to allow for 20 posts to be displayed) but I guess that’ll have to be something that’ll have to do without. Atleast I can export all my posts. Also the del.icio.us posting api allows for ignoring of posts that have already been submitted, so that’s a plus as well. I guess I could just have a python/perl/bash/whatever script run as a cron job on a server periodically and have it perhaps only grab the last 10 or so dugg links (better make that a variable).

Update 2: Dammit, the javascript export and the rss feed doesn’t have the actual link. It has the link to the post on digg.com. *sigh* Perhaps this is going to be a job for greasemonkey?

So being a little bit influenced by the talk, I’m taking advantage of del.icio.us‘s ability to handle rss enclosures, and I’m now bookmarking dj mixes I come across that I like or recommend. In effect this becomes my own DIY podcast.

Subscribe to the feed/podcast here.

Hours of fun (OK, perhaps really minutes) to be had over at the Polaroid-o-nizer. The above image is what it did to this picture. If you’re that way inclined, there’s a copy of the php script that does this for your own use.

A random quote:

I once asked a boy to take a shower with me. and he said “no thanks, I dont want to get my hair wet”

They’ve also got an RSS feed if you’re into that kinda thing as well.

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originally uploaded by minusbaby.

Just testing out the Flickr service. According to Flickr:

Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours, and for you and your friends and family to tell your stories about them.

It also allows you to post to your blog entries about your’s or other peoples’ photos.

I’m not too sure if I’ll end up using this since I’ve already got my own gallery, but its always fun to play around with this stuff.

Disk quotas for user daveg (uid xxx): none

And there’s seems to be about 19.5Gb free at the moment as well… *cough*

I wouldn’t mind checking out gmailfs though.

What childhood toy from the 80s are you?

For those of you unfamiliar with Last.FM is a personal radio station that “builds up a personal profile of your music taste, consisting of tracks you added to your profile and tracks you listened to on Last.fm.” It also ties in nicely with Audioscrobbler which is developed by the same people. Audioscrobbler is “a computer system that builds up a detailed profile of your musical taste. After installing an Audioscrobbler Plugin, your computer sends the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler Server.”

Their both worth checking out and its fun to see what your friends have been listening to.

Audioscrobbler also offers RSS feeds of what you’ve been listening to so you can extract that data and use it like I have in the side bar of this blog in the “10 recently played songs” section.