Useless, but…

Somebody wanted this.

function ripper($url) {
$page = appr_curl_function($url);
if ($page === false)
{
die(”Something wack happened”);
}
preg_match(’/watch_fullscreen\?video_id=(.*?)&l=(.*?)+&t=(.*?)&/’, $page, $match);
$match1 = “http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=”;
if(!$match[1]){
die(”Some Informative Error Messgae Here”);
}
$match1 .= $match[1];
$match1 .= “&t=”;
$match1 .= $match[3];
return $match1;
}

Should work. Write yourself necessary things in the appr_curl_function()

Another log entry.

• Work: NP Disposed. New found contract with some dude in Bombay.
• Desperately seeking to extend local portfolio.
• More complications with the payments. Ak gives haath!
• Trip to Om Shanti Dhama!
• Chronic rabid-dog fights.
• Trek to Muktihole, with family.
• Back to college life. First offer too!
• Read up quite a bit. The Critique, again. Saakshi and Mandra again too.
• Paulo Coelho has to be the worst author ever. The Alchemist was probably the first and the last good piece of literature he produced. The Zahor was completely unreadable. -On the banks of Piedra, I sat and Wept- has to be amongst the most unbearable sermons on neo-paganist, feminist, pseudo-advaitic Christianity.
• Kailash might work out, after all. Acads notwithstanding.
• New Hopes | New Roles. Some deal did work out with our man after all!

Concerts. Ahh

Yamini 2008 @ IIMB:

Reached IIMB towards the end of the first piece (the first concert, rather) by Sowmya. “Kurrai Onrum Illai” was the last piece that was nearly done with as I got there.

What followed was Shashank’s brilliant concert. Amongst the most stunning flute virtuosoes ever, so far as I’m concerned. Truly, a remarkable rendition.

Drupal 6 Released!

http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0

Finally! I should be ready to upgrade most of my sites right away. First pleasing news of the day!

Y! ID Scanner with PHP.

Old. Miss the Old YaJew! Days.

Not Multisock. Used to work, atleast.

-> http://www.bas.org.in/files/php.idscanner.phps

Disclaimer: People who hate nefarious stuff please turn away. I was still a Juvenile Delinquent then.

Thou artless earth-vexing pigeon-egg!

Finally, a programming language I can actually like!

http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/

There ’s always something in the universe that you can get good at. I’ve heard of somebody who composed palindromic poems in Sanskrit and somebody who came up with a programming language with the code syntax being completely in whitespaces. I guess this endeavor deserves to make it to that list too.

Much in the same context, One more thing that comes to my mind are Kasper’s (The Typo3 Man) PHPoems. I’m too lazy to find the links. Go look up google and read ‘em up sometime.

Port of baseline.

One More Drupal Theme. This one is baseline from freecsstemplates

Quick n’ Dirty, for some arbitrary dude.
Licensed under GPL. (C) 2007 to nobody. No Rights Reserved (atleast for the port).

Go here to Download - http://www.bas.org.in/files/baseline.zip

Refer to this post for the port of Industrial

I’ve got a few more. Will post ‘em as I find ‘em.

Drupal and Democracy

http://drupal.org/node/202638

Valid Reason so far as I can fathom. Unfortunate that Dub only had to get repeatedly dismissed and flamed at.
Dries is a great man, but really.. the proposition of open-source communities being under the fatherhood of benevolent dictators, especially ones with new startups and in the hands of legalities and venture capitalists..isn’t particularly an ideal proposition.

I’m all for democratization, personally. Looks like it’s not to be, however.

Drupal.Se

Pretty lame, this.

http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/forum/node/3654

I knew of a certain Mr Pillai who supposedly made a lot of money out of cybersquatting (most notably on sydney2000.com, I think). Very very lame though. I don ‘t think this dude’s going to get away with the hijacking.

His track-record isn’t too great with the rest of the Drupal junta either. He’s been consistently writing half-baked, fallacious and lame stuff against Drupal for a while now as in here.

Trek-to-KP.

Night 1.

• Early start to our man’s place.
• Chronic hunting for footwear.
• Decision to abandon excess medical paraphernalia.