WhoisX relaunch
We’re ready now…
So, we’ve been running WhoisX since 2004, it was slightly updated in 2007, since then not a lot has happened…
Until now…
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Universal Currency Converter TCL for Eggdrop
This is a currency converter written in TCL for Eggdrop, which is similar to the ucc.mrc I wrote for mIRC.
I used to use the xeucc.tcl, but that script no longer works and hasn’t been updated since 2008.
> !ucc 9 usd gbp
<Bot> Could not obtain results from XE.com, sorry!
worldtime.tcl
Sometimes you need to know the time somewhere else in the world. I find it useful to get my eggdrop to return the time of another timezone…
> .tz london <Bot> HM2K, The time for the london timezone is Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009
However, much like my old weather.tcl, I realised that my worldtime.tcl had passed it’s sell by date and had now expired.
My old worldtime.tcl which was based on a script by Murf which used worldtimeserver.com to gather it’s data had stopped working.
It would seem that worldtimeserver.com had changed their markup which meant that it was no longer possible to parse the correct data from the HTML.
Never mind, I thought, there must be a better way, that doesn’t need to use a third party website, that won’t stop working.
After all operating systems have worldtime build in without using a website, so how do they do it?
So, I did some investigation…
Gmail needs an API
Yesterday I spent some time investigating Google Wave. A very interesting new product from Google. Not only that but an interesting protocol.
If you think about it, Google has mostly only used other protocols for communication in the past, now it’s creating it’s own. They clearly want to create a completely new protocol that will effectively be the future of these old primitive protocols.
For this to catch on, it will either have to run directly along side smtp and xmmp or layer on top of them.
We’re going to need a way to pass requests over http to smtp or pop3/imap, and what better way to do it than with gmail?
Sure, but there’s no API…
weather.tcl
Today, after I decided to hang out in #eggtcl on EFnet, someone asked the following:
<daILLeST> anyine know of a weather tcl that actually works? All the ones I find are outdated, or in another language…
I decided it was time that I updated my old weather.tcl based on a script by Ycarus for eggdrop bots.
mydigitallife.info stole my code
I wrote a little script for an article on fixr.co.uk entitled “Remove OGA Notifier“.
Today I discovered that mydigitallife.info had clearly taken details from my batch file code and used it without giving me or fixr.co.uk any credit at all.
Ident Spoofing
Pingotron
I’ve been meaning to publish a post about Pingotron for some time now, but now I fear it’s already too late.
Quite a few months back I was looking for an application that could sit on my desktop and tell me instantly if any of my servers had stopped responding by ping.
EFnet UK
On Sunday July 19 2009 Hardy announced on the EFnet website that Demon Internet will be delinking efnet.demon.co.uk and hub.uk from the EFnet IRC network in August.
For me, it marks the end of an era. There are no more UK IRC servers on the EFnet IRC network.
jQuery sucks at browser detection
This week i’ve been tweaking a little site I’ve started called “ismybrowseruptodate.com“, which is designed to assist people who don’t know whether their browser is up-to-date or not.
At first I thought this would be simple, because I knew jQuery had browser detection and had a variable called jQuery.browser.version, which would be very useful for checking the browser version, or so I thought.