Coderplay

The below is a work in progress, it’s bits and pieces I made up while on holiday:

Hey hey hello
Welcome to the show
I want you to know
Some more about me

This shit, I did not plan it
This skill, you wish you had it
Brain the size of a planet
Mind so wide you couldn’t span it

Brawn, I have not much,
however I’ve still more than Munch,
So you can’t beat me to the punch,
I do have a sizable paunch,
What can I say, I like to munch.

I say brains over

Listen to this verse,
or you’ll end up in a hearse,
heed my warning, when you’re roaming, in the gloaming, you can’t be knowing,
when a creep comes crawling, he’ll be informing, he’ll be probing, about your political past,
what colour, what caste; then he’ll wax vast, selling sutures, educational futures, putrid papers.
Listen not to this man, telling you his plan. He’s the devil in disguise, Satan’s behind his eyes,
telling you lies, his eye’s on the prize, which is your demise. He’ll cut petrol prices, which seems like good news, but there’s danger in his views, making you all fools. Watch out for this man, don’t let him sell his plan, with his watering can. Petrol will go down, but it’s your grandkids that’ll drown, in the promises of a clown, made under false pretenses, an act indecent, without precedent. Gotta laser beam it, cut through his words of credence, see through his political ties.

Chorus:

You can see him perspiring, his eyes always prying, implying, denying, never inspiring, his plans backfiring.

He wants not dreams but not the gleam of poker machines.

… his paper vows, so get the paper towels and let’s cut this pretense of his defence, get off the fence!

The Henrietta painting is finished, and you can read all about it on my mother’s blog – I’m having same problems with uploading images at the moment.

I’m going to use this page to keep track of what Anime I’m watching, and what Manga I’m reading. This is a work in progress.

Anime:

Manga:

You might not be aware of it, but one of the many projects I’ve created is WikiWatcher. Wikiwatcher allows you to see Wikipedia change in real-time: just sit back and watch!

WikiWatcher works by grabbing all the latest changes to Wikipedia – known as ‘edits’ – every 30 seconds and storing them on my server. When you visit WikiWatcher, it shows the latest 10 changes – the details include the article that was edited and who made the change.

So why not check it out? You get to see what crazy stuff they get up to, over in Wikipedia-land.

I recently decided to take a look at who is using RSS 2 HTML (a site of mine that allows you to take an RSS feed and present it as HTML; it’s great for website creators).

RSS 2 HTML works by giving the website creator a bit of HTML code that embeds the RSS feed into a web page. The end result is that when you visit this person’s website, you see the contents of the RSS feed along with the other content on the page. Additionally, it puts a small link back to the RSS 2 HTML website. This link is the only acknowledgment I receive for the websites that use my service (this includes bandwidth costs that are incurred every time a person visits a page that uses RSS 2 HTML).

When looking through the list of websites that use RSS 2 HTML, I found a highly interesting result:

University of New South Wales – Library – RSS Library Resources

The link following each and every bullet point on that page loads an RSS 2 HTML feed. “Great!”, I thought, “a prestigious university using my tool”. But then I noticed that they had hidden the link back to my site; this means no acknowledgment to me whatsoever! That’s right – UNSW, with total revenue in 2007 of $959 million¹, is too cheap to recognise the contribution of my work to their website.

What adds insult to injury is that I used to be a student at UNSW, and I was charged large sums of money for the privilege.

But I’m a nice guy. Even though they don’t acknowledge me, I’ll still provide them with the same fast efficient RSS 2 HTML service – which is perhaps more than they deserve.

¹ http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/UNSW_AnnualReport_Financials_2007.pdf