Dr. Mike's Steak Dinner

Just yet another quick mention in case you didn't see the article on Torrent Freak that Demonoid is back online and sort of working.  The forums are still offline but maybe that's a good thing as it'll give the moderators a chance to review the rules one more time and hopefully pay attention to this this time around.  The servers still seem to be stressed a bit as 404's and Server overloaded errors abound. 

The tracker has been up for awhile now.  The indexer and the main site have now returned.

Yes, I have invites but no I'm not giving them out as I don't want to put my own account at risk. (edit: I think waiting until they resolve the rest of their issues would be best anyway before overtaxing their servers with new users.)

Yup, I like T-Shirts. (Especially when there's a cute babe in them.) I had dozens of them when I was in college. Most of them were fairly well warn out by the time Angie showed up in my life. I know she was eying them hoping that I would get rid of them. (Me wear sweaters?  Eeew!  *shudder*) Just because there was a few holes in them.  They weren't that bad.

Anyway I was poking around Topato and noticed this shirt created by the folks from Sam and Fuzzy: The Neville Would Have Done It In Four Books shirt.

Yup, it's more Harry Potter stuff.  I've blogged about Harry Potter previously.  Who can forget 50 Things NOT To Do At Hogwarts?

Could Neville done it in four books?  I have to wonder.  I've always taken the view that while the Harry Potter books were fairly tight, I always wanted to know more about the school and what was happening in the background.  The movies are known for cutting parts out of the books.  If I said that Neville could have done it in four books, that means even more would have been taken out. 

Every once in a while, I get either the urge or an email begging me to Open Source the Download from YouTube script.  The idea of doing so has been in the back of my mind for quite some time although managing yet another project isn't on the top of my list. (Anyone remember that Supermarket script I wrote a few year back?)

The idea of doing so was raised in a pair of emails this morning that showed up in my inbox.  One of them basically consisted of "PLZ!!!! U SEND ME YOUTUBE SCRITP?  ME WANT NOW!!!!!"  That really makes me want to do it.

A couple of years ago, I got offered $500 for both the site and the domain.  Silly me turned them down as I kind of liked the idea of having something of my own to work on.  I had plans for the domain as well.

One of the problems with releasing the code is the question of licensing of the actual code.  The original code that I downloaded many years ago didn't include any licensing with the file.  I've tried to contact the original author on a number of occasions, both with questions about the licensing as well as fixes for the code.  Since the code file that is still available still consists of the original code that no longer works and the developer has never replied, I don't think he's too interested in the project any more.

The code is a mess though.  I've built onto the original download with my own code and there's a lot of hacks in there.  Doing a complete from the ground up rewrite would probably be best.  Get around any licensing issues as well.

I have to admit that I've had a bunch of additions I've always wanted to add on to it.  A thumbnail of the video would be great. (The Download Videos from Dailymotion site has this.) Stats like the last ten videos downloaded or what's popular would also be a plus.  Stuff like that I've wanted to add in would be great.  Actually having instructions would also be a plus.

Anyone care to weigh in? (Hopefully with an intelligent response?)

I haven't done one of these in ages.  My thanks to The Angst Guy for uploading this to the Daria Wiki.

Daria: Jane, you dyed your hair again, didn't you?

Jane: Um, no.

Daria: And it's green this time.  Why green?

Jane: I've over here, Daria.

Daria: And why are you standing there with your arms up like that?

Jane: Daria, put on your glasses.

Anyone else care to come up with a caption?

I'm still plugging away at my collection of books over at Librarything. While I'm waiting for a set to finish uploading to my iPod Touch so I can read them later, I noticed this post on the Librarything blog.  It's an attempt by John Dalton, LibraryThing's systems administrator, to demonstrate the difference between geeks and nerds.