I was tired this afternoon after some work and decided to quickly hack something useless.

The result? There's now a little script that displays a random fortune cookie from a copy of the database kept in the Battle for Wesnoth project's mainline repository.

• Wesnoth fortune cookies (undecorated XHTML version here).

(And if you still don't get it...)

Some time ago I was searching for a legendary irssi script that would allow me to use commands like /1, /2, etc. to switch to the respective window numbers without having to type the complete /window command. Although I didn't succeed in my search, one of the freenode staffers gave me a little command to populate the command aliases list with some adequate (99) entries.

That's very nice except that the config file becomes a bit larger.

I was bored last night so I decided to reinvent the wheel and write such a script that doesn't require any client configuration changes to bind the same aliases automagically on startup. I am pretty sure it already existed, but since I couldn't find it...

• window-cmd.pl (1.4 KB)

The installation procedure is the same as with any other irssi scripts.

(... or why I am not a good father, explained in a ridiculously long article.)

As explained in detail in the recently overhauled projects section, Invasion from the Unknown and After the Storm are two campaigns I am maintaining as external add-ons for the Battle for Wesnoth Project with the power of the Wesnoth-UMC-Dev repository. Both are sequels to the mainline Under the Burning Suns campaign, and, in a way, to Descent into Darkness and the infamous The Dark Hordes as well.

One of my first experiments after I became administrator/code technician of the Wesnoth.org forum around Feb. 2009 was porting that little "select code" link that phpBB 3 includes in the headers of [code] blocks when using the mainline prosilver template, to the good old subsilver2 template.

Although it was rather easy to do, it doesn't work in certain browsers (including Konqueror), but the original code used by prosilver doesn't work with them either.

Since someone on freenode IRC pointed out to me that the audience may want to use such a thing in other phpBB 3 forums for those who are die-hard fans of the subsilver2 template, I decided to publish a little modification package here.

• Version 0.1.0 (Zip, 8.4 KB)

Mandatory screenshot at the right.

I am not going to submit it to the official mod database (or publish a ModX-based instructions file) since it's a very small hack for subsilver2, and according to the mod database policies, a prosilver component is required... (?!).