Sadly, It Didn't Make It

I know I'm a bit late with this but I just thought I'd follow up on my post from the other day.

Unfortunately, London's misguided Thames whale, died on Saturday as rescuers transported it on a barge towards deeper water in the Thames Estuary.

Complete BBC report on the attempted rescue here.

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Here's Something You Don't See Every Day



Yup... it's a whale (a northern bottle nose to be precise), and it's actually in the Thames, swimming past London's Houses of Parliament.

The complete story here. More pictures here.

Only in this instantaneous age of the internet would this story, and the pictures to go with it, spread so fast.

Here's some excellent background info. on the species.

By the way... if you just happened to be in London today and snapped some pics of this marvelous marine mammal yourself, you can send them here:

yourpics@bbc.co.uk

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Amazing Perl output capturing `sniplet`

Here's a terrific little chunk of code I found while searching for a way to capture some output from a Perl script, the output of which was being used in a Server-Side-Include.

I wanted the ability to use the same script, capture the output into a variable, then "escape" the output for use as a javascript feed.

It works like a charm. All output going to STDOUT is captured into a variable without requiring any modification to your original subroutine.

You're then able to do some work on it before PRINTing it to the restored STDOUT.
Try it for yourself.

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Help For The Chromatically Challenged

Here are three of my favorite color work programs.

1) Pixel Toolbox:

This gem allows you to build one of those cool "favicon.ico" icons that you see in front of the url for the site you're visiting (like this one), in the location window of your browser.

2) LittleRGB:

Pick colors (or blend your own) and get the RGB values and even the HTML hex code for pasting into your web pages.

3) ColorDetector:

This one's my favorite. Fire it up and you instantly get the RGB and HTML hex codes for any color under your mouse pointer. Works with any application, even websites currently in your browser (allowing you to copy a favorite color scheme exactly).

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