I spotted the following note on a toilet door in the Computer Science / Software Eng building today:

"Call 03-[0-9]{8} for a good time..."

Oh dear...

In other news, AllPeers was released as a public beta today. It's a firefox p2p extension, but instead of sharing with everyone you can choose exactly who (from your contact list) gets to see each item you share. It has pretty great potential for sharing large bunches of photos between friends for exampe, and also for just putting random interesting links / files in a pool for like-minded friends to check out.

It's based on bittorrent, so you can share with a bunch of people and you won't have to cop the bandwidth for uploading to each and every one of them individually. Support for regular bittorrents is coming, we're told.

I claims to be "secure", but I can't seem to find anything more concrete than that. Are transfers all done over SSL? Probably not. It's going to be open-sourced at some stage though, so I guess we'll be able to find out soon enough.

Possibly my geekiest post title yet...

The job search is going pretty well. I've had a few people interested in me (after only one actual interview, how's that for efficiency?) and possibly another interview coming up soon. But it's looking like I may well be moving to Adelaide for next year. Le gasp!

Anyways, in the past few days I've been hacking away at a Greasemonkey script for bloglines users. Basically it sets the opacity of feed links based on how many unread items there are in the feed (see screenshot). This came about mostly because it's a feature I had in my own RSS reader, but bloglines kept implementing new features, and I figured it was easier in the long term to just add my own feaure than try and reimplement all of theirs.

It's a pretty simple thing I guess, but I find it useful and felt like sharing. It's not perfect (because hooking into someone else's code is always tough) so if you make any improvements please let me know :)

Oh, and the mapping of unread items to opacity is entirely replaceable if you're happy to replace/edit the function I wrote, those with poorer eyesight or different gamma settings may need to bump up the minimum opacity a bit for comfort...

Download it here, if you like...