English Over The Sleeve

… is hereby resumed.

Thanks to a cool guy who: a) gave me a clue to repair my blog, and b) reminded me that I was going to repair my blog.

I have been (very intermittently) trying to make a script add a prefix to a filename for about 18 months now. With very little success.

But today, I can finally say “All your basename are belong to us!” Or is that “All your `basename` are belong to us”?

So here’s jpgshrink3 - the logical continuation of my previous efforts. jpgshrink3  actually does a bit more than just shrink jpg files - it also moves them to a user-specified folder and creates a thumbnail in a thumbnail folder for each jpg. Very useful for phpwebgallery, that I use here.

The Script page.

I was blarchiving* this evening, when I stumbled across the “Blog Readability Test”. Obviously, I ran it on English Over The Sleeve / blog.ourcq, and I got this result:

Then, as an experiment, I ran it on the English Over The Sleeve Archive from November 2006, and got this:

Obviously, I was intrigued, so I ran it on November 2004:

Then I realized that English Over The Sleeve didn’t exist in 2004 - so the page that test was running on was just a list of recent post titles. I would obviously have succeeded as a headline writer.

*According to the Dictionary of Eye-watering Words, as referenced in Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!, to blarchive means to read through other people’s blog archives.

I have been asked what Ourcq (as in, http://blog.ourcq.org ) means.

The answer is… complicated. Several reasons are plausible.

1. The Ourcq canal is the starting point of the Boulevard Macdonald, here in Paris. This ties in rather nicely with my web identity (and macdo.com was taken)
2. I was (slightly drunk and) on a metro that stopped at Ourcq. I freaked out and bought the domain name (and macdo.com was already taken).
3. I was looking for a short and sweet domain name because free.fr had decided that my blog was ‘abuse’. As macdo.com was taken…
4. Our CQ is a new web fad, and I wanted to cash in on it. Besides, macdo.com was already taken.

With all these potential reasons in mind, please answer the poll below.

Here’s a short funny true story, to thank you for answering the poll question. Someone was presenting the results of a poll in which participants could answer Yes, emphatically (2 respondents), Yes (4), No (4), and No, certainly not (1). The answers came up on the powerpoint, and the guy started his commentary thus : “As you can see, the results of this poll were overwhelmingly positive…”.

Moving a WP blog is non trivial.
Hey, It does all seem to work, right?

Drop me a line if you find any bugs, please - use the comments or try macdo@the domain name in the address bar (.org)

The pics gallery has moved to http://pics.ourcq.org, too.

Now y’all take care!