N8's Nerd Blog

Aha! So you're wondering how to post pictures directly from your camera phone or other e-mail enabled device. This is what I used: http://hipme.com/software/blogrouter/. A very well written (however sparsely documented) bit of code that will register your device and store it in a database (dbm), process e-mails, extract pictures from them and save them to disk and then post to your Blogger XML RPC enabled blog. I'm using it with the blogger.com service. I had to modify it a tiny bit to get it to do what I want, and I think that since the author is requesting development help, I'll do just that. It's a good bit of code anyhow, I learned quite a bit just from reading thru it. I didn't know you could do this in perl:

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Sweet!

I don't like MovableType. The licensing sucks and the interface blows. I tried it for the 2nd time this week, dunno what makes me think that I'd like it the 2nd time around. I am gonna check out some of the other Blogger XML RPC based *open source* packages and see what they offer. I'll post my findings.

http://www.levenez.com/unix.

Neato.

One of the neater ways to save your mail headers on a UNIX box is to use procmail:

:0 hwc: headers.lock

* !^FROM_MAILER

| /usr/local/bin/gzip >> ~/headers.gz