“Hey, we could build a UAV.” The thought suddenly crossed my mind as the family was lunching Satuday at Chili’s. Just take a RC airplane, pop a miniture camera in it, get some stabilization, then tie a linux computer hooked to a GPS to drive the thing around the sky. When I can back from lunch, I looked around the web for a bit. Linux apparently is not the choice, special built chips are.

John Grubber posts his results with SpamAssassin - .900 batting average for marking spam as spam.

Opening up Mail this morning, I see I received 101 spam emails since monday evening. Of those, only one was in my inbox this morning. That’s a better batting average.

Nayaa! Nayaa! Spam has no power on me!

So now I can conveniently use Movable Type as handy CMS thanks to Beth’s Edit this page template snippet. Thanks!

Mozilla Firebird has been released, as if you have not heard. I was reading through the Mozilla Branding document that outlines the new names, the reasons, and the rules.

Rule Three: “When referring to Thunderbird or Firebird … make sure to use the project name with Mozilla pre-pended as “Mozilla Thunderbird” or ”Mozilla Firebird” instead of Mozilla alone or Firebird/Thunderbird alone.”

The document does not keep its own rules.

On just the next line: “our primary development on the Firebird and Thunderbird projects”

Sorry, it seems funny to me at this hour of the night. :)

Unison is cross platform file/directory syncing program. [Link via vsbabu] This will be a really handy tool to add to my bag of tricks.

In fact, this could even subsitute for the magic SFTP client that would let me edit files localy. Hmmm, I just need a shell script that checks for localy updated files and then starts Unison up when it finds one.

Looks like there is a a new OS X FTP client on the block, FTPeel. [Link vla Clint, and a response to Clint from Eric]

Like Clint, I need SFTP support. If it had it, FTPeel would probably become my quicky uploading tool of choice.

To be my main FTP app, I need to be able to edit files in place. In an ideal world I would just drag that php file down to BBEdit in the dock, make my changes, and when I save they would be uploaded. I already get some of this functionality with Transmit and BBEdit, anthough in a clunky fashion. It would be great to be able to edit any remote file in any Mac application.

Otherwise, it looks very slick.

Simon Wilson points out PyMeld, a templating system for Python that uses the ID attribute of tags for control of the template. It’s similar one of my favorite templating engines, Amrita for Ruby. Using ID’s is a great way to do things, since the template pages are normal html pages. The graphics guy can edit them in Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or whatever he likes and not wreck my template info - and he can work without having distracting {foreach} haunting his tables. I can’t wait for something like this to come out for PHP.

Great CSS tabs from Kalesy Group.

Last week I was inspired to actualy do to the fun projects I’ve been thinking of. Now my room is full of whirring an clicking noises. Everytime someone visits a page on my server, I hear it. Here is a bit of sound (mp3) from an unusually busy minute.

It’s all done with a little bit of Ruby goodness tailing an apache logfile on the server via ssh, and outputting into iHook.

http://www.sounddogs.com/ - Huge, huge, huge collection of sounds. It was fun poking around and making up a stories and plot lines to go with each one I tried.