As noted, I’m addicted to Flickr.

For this reason, I have hacked together a Blosxom plugin based on syndicated that lets you put a few recent photos from your photostream onto your flavour templates. It caches nicely and is quite flexible. It is currently hard-coded, however, to display the “square” image size and won’t deviate from that. If this becomes a problem for you, please comment.

To get up and running with flickr, find the RSS feed for your photostream (just click the link in the lower-right of the page on Flickr) and paste the URL into the appropriate place in the script. Configure a few other options if you like (including the HTML rendering of your photostream), and put $flickr::photos where you’d like your photographs to appear in your header or footer flavour files. For more information, see perldoc flickr.

At the risk of ending these posts monotonously: With no further ado, I present flickr 0.1 (it would be wise to option-click).

A very slight change to syndicated more safely preserves HTML entities with the goal of keeping your site valid. You know the drill.

The following is a news update of the dire significance and utter import that you’ve come to expect from Capra hircus.

If you’ve got Gmail and a big heart, you may already know about the isnoop.net gmail invite spooler. If you don’t, it’s a service that has become just a touch superficial these days, but was once ingenious and necessary. It works thus: when one receives Gmail invites from the benevolent gods above, one sends them to gmail@isnoop.net. The invites are automatically cached for the next poor sap fleeing to Gmail from the clutches of doom.

Sending all 50 invites upon their receipt used to be a quite a chore (command-V, click, wait, repeat). If you’ve got Safari (and perhaps other browsers; I haven’t tested others), however, the pain is over. Enter gmail@isnoop.net into the appropriate text field and hit the return button rapid-fire. Hit it a whole bunch of times. Yes, I’m quite serious about this. Gmail will send a number of invites equal, quite intuitively, to the number of times you pressed return. Yes!

I think we’ve just surpassed sliced bread.