Coredump

Update: Ah, it’s awake!

We’ll see you when you wake up.

The Phoenix Mars Lander, with its batteries depleting, has gone to sleep mode as recovery efforts continue.

While we’re in the subject of anthromorphism, check out and follow MarsPhoenix’s other cohorts on Twitter. I wished we had this back in my science high school days — it would have been a blast. (Pointy nerd hat on.)

I just noticed that my Twitter timeline RSS is not being displayed in my tumblog, so I went back to Yahoo! Pipes to sniff around. It appears that the Twitter feed is not coming up valid (or Pipes could not parse it).

(Update: The Twitter feed is valid, according to the W3C, but the Feedburner one is not. Oookay, so Pipes accepts an invalid feed, but not a valid one?)

As a workaround, I plugged in the feed through Feedburner and fed the Feedburner RSS back to my Pipe, et voila! my tumblog is back to normal.

In related tumblog news, popular social bookmarking site, del.icio.us, has been rebranded as, plainly, delicious.com. The old URI still works — I like it better than the boring new one (love the new layout though, much cleaner and faster), which lacks the, er, whimsy-ness of the old domain — but just to be sure, I upgraded the link to the new feed.

You’ll probably notice the cool Flash tag cloud on the sidebar. That’s courtesy of Roy Tanck’s WP-Cumulus plugin. Thanks, @sofimi for the heads up.

I’m still on K2 (RC3), but I’ve ditched its Sidebar Manager for WP’s widgets. SBM has been causing lots of issues for me lately, but I haven’t had the time to muck around it. (When did I ever have time for anything, anyway? ;)) It’s working fine in my sandbox, though — well, RC5 at least, but I’m not that keen on porting my tweaks yet to that release.

I haven’t been posting here lately. Like a few other bloggers I know, Twitter (and FriendFeed) has been the choice for posting “lifestream” tidbits. But, heck, I don’t even use Twitter that much now (prolly, the IT sec audit at work has something to do with it, heh).

I’ve just started using Twitter, an up-and-coming web service that posts user status on the web, in IM and in SMS. The service also exposes its API, so it’s possible to build apps using it.

I found a nifty way of updating my Twitter status through the command line:

curl -u username:password -d status='status_goes_here' -s http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null 2>&1