Buzzsaws (version 1.0) is a powered by WordPress.  It uses the LJXP module, a very slick component, to back posts up to a LiveJournal account.  The Flickr and Ning feeds use a modified version of cache to pull new copies of the RSS every few minutes.

WeatherPrim is an old SecondLife application of mind that lets your query the weather, via WeatherBug, in-world.  WeatherPrim predates SecondLife HUD’s, which is why it’s presented as a station.  Again, this is an old project, one I have no real plans to maintain, but I occaisionally get emails about it, so it’s going up here for posterity.  This code is old, offered “as-is,” and has no life-time guaruntee.

There are two scripts you need to make WeatherPrim work:

• weather.pl
• weather.lsl (can be named anything in the prim)

Instructions:

1. Load weather.pl on your server.
2. Change $id, $pw, and $servername to mtach your information.
3. Create a notecard called wxbug, and place your WeatherBug API licensecode it.
4. Create a prim, and place the LSL code — weather.lsl — into it.
5. Change weatherMail to your email address and save the code.
6. Click on your WeatherPrim, and give it a whirl.

Known Issues:

1. Once in a while, weather.pl will crash because of a problem with XML::Parser about 10-15% of the time.
2. The LSL code will get hung sometimes, requiring a complete restart of the prim.

Screenbucket is an AutoIt/PHP mashup that takes a screenshot then calls a PHP script that uploads the screenshot to Photobucket. There are three components to Screenbucket:

• screenbucket.au3 — the AutoIt script that takes the screenshot, calls the PHP script, and deletes the screenshot.
• screenbucket.php — the PHP script that uploads screenshot to Photobucket.
• screenbucket.txt — configuration file which goes in the same directory as the PHP script.

Screenbucket is designed to take screenshots on a Windows machine, but with the uploading system in a seperate script that process can be performed on any machine that hosts PHP files. My Screenbucket album is online at the following address:

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/turbov21/screenbucket/

The two files presented here represent an ugly hack I thre together to let me know, from across the room, if my Internet connection is back up. I post this only as a joke to the lengths I will go to have Internet when a normal person would just take a nap.

• check_online.au3
• check_online.pl

You will need to modify line 21 in check_online.au3 to reflect where your check_online.pl file is located. Otherwise, this should run out of the box on any Windows system with both AutoIt 3 and Perl installed.

Selma Elks is still a work in progress, but is nearing completion as I get a handle on CodeIgniter. Ideally it will be completed and 100% functional by July 12, 2008.