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Well, after five days of working away at the terminal updating by Gentoo box to the unstable builds, I finally have everything up and working. Well, except that GNOME has some problems with SVG images which I will look into later. However, those Gentoo developers who work on Portage have to put some more work into dependency calculating; I had to rebuild a lot of stuff by hand due to updates in both the DBus and expat libraries, which made this update take much longer than necessary. The whole experience nearly made me go Rambo for no reason.

Well, now to check my 193 new emails for me, and only about a dozen are spam!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use XML::Atom::Client;
use Text::Wrap;

$Text::Wrap::columns = 76;

my $atomapi = XML::Atom::Client->new;

my $o;

MAINLOOP: {
eval {
my $f = $atomapi->getFeed(”http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=atom&person=all“);
my @entry = $f->entries;
my $e = $entry[0];
$o = $e->elem->getChildrenByTagName(”title”)->shift->firstChild->data;
};

if ($@) {
redo MAINLOOP;
}
}

$o = “\n\033[1;34m” . fill(”\033[1;34m”, “\033[1;34m”, “FUN FACT: $o”) . “\n\n”;
$o =~ s/\033\[1;34m\033\[1;34m/\033[1;34m/g;
open(MOTD, “>/etc/motd”);
print MOTD $o;
truncate(MOTD, length($o));

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Um, yay for me? And I thought those tests were ridiculously easy…

Which also means new episodes of House! Yay!

Oh, and free candy.

Perhaps you’ve heard of LawForKids, but probably not. Basically, it’s a collection of unintentionally hilarious comics that are supposed to teach Arizona state laws to kids. (Or so I guess.) Being a regular on LUE/LL and /b/, I have a big collection of edits of these comics which can actually make them more hilarious. So using the free domain I got from my hosting plan, I’ve set up LawlForKids, a collection of edits to the comics.

Note that some of the comics contain obscene language/profanity/racism and other objectionable content. Also, it’s all just a plain web page right now, but if it gets popular, I might get off my lazy ass and make an actual layout to the site.

*nerdgasms*

I guess I should have watched the previews for next week’s House this Tuesday. It turns out FOX is pushing back all of its season premiers to November just for the world series. A WHOLE MONTH.

Guess that leaves me stuck watching reruns.

After a unfortunate event with my old webhost, I was forced to switch over to DreamHost. Hopefully, this will provide a good enough host for my site. Please note that everything won’t be up right away.