It’s around 9 months since it was discovered that MSN had implemented some pretty retarded keyword blocking rules on messages sent through MSN Messenger (aka. Live Messenger; not the client, the protocol). Now — according to Slashdot — they’ve added at least one more keyword to the list: “youtube.com”. I guess it’s only fair to speculate if this has something to do with the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries.
allocinit has a more comprehensive list of blocked sub-strings and now you can add at least “youtube\.com” to it. Has anybody tested if links to Google Video gets through?
Now, this is just one reason that I don’t use MSN more than what is absolutely necessary…
UPDATE (May 12, 2008): I’ve tossed Adium into the trash can on my dock and am no longer using MSN. Try Google Talk instead, if you want to reach me via IM. It may not be open source or that far from MSN, but at least they don’t censor one’s messages and it’s based on Jabber (at least the protocol is open), so pretty much any Jabber client will work with it, hence everyone can join in without relying on a reverse engineered protocol. My Google Talk name is: lillesvin@gmail.com.
Asked my friend Mikkel (aka. DJ Smart Fætter Mikkel) to put a little scratch on our recent Migato Estalo Co. track Køledisk, and the result is the hit of the summer 2008. Get it while it’s hot! (Kindly hosted on Google Pages for your download pleasure.)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
(Update: Had to rename the post, as the ‘?’ seemed to mess up some RSS aggregators.)
I’ve been playing Contact (from Atlus, for the DS) a lot lately. It’s downright fucking awesome — nothing less! Now, if anybody should happen to play the game, then add me as a friend (and/or send me your friend key). Mine is 2320-5766-4698. I’m really eager to check out WiFisland.
In case you own a DS and is NOT playing Contact (which would be wrong — wrong, I tells ya!), check it out! I picked up a pre-owned copy for $30. It’s jam-packed with weird geeky references (like “I wish a base like this belonged to us.” and “It’s Rizo Island. Riiiiiizo Island!!!“) and on top of that it’s a great RPG with a perfect mix of retro-elements and completely new stuff. Go, go, go!
I just saw this on the DK-TUG mail list. I seam to be the tool I’ve been wanting for years but been to slack to find. “Slack” since i couldn’t imagine that such tool should not exist. It’s ‘iconv‘ [0] and works like this:
% iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 old-utf8-file.txt > new-iso88591-file.txt
[0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv.1.html