Poke me; I dare you.
I have implemented, with the help of Mr. Paul Nepywoda, the Facebook APA; Automated Poke Attack. It is now nearly impossible for Facebook to poke me and go un-repoked for more than 1 hour. The details are classified.
I collaborated intensively with Charlie Deets this morning and in to the afternoon, regarding the status of his ability to post pictures with WordPress 2.0. Unfortunately PHP safe mode imposes difficult restrictions that required great efforts in order to circumvent. Hopefully, upon his hosting company’s action upon a support ticket, operations will be restored to nominal state. I am eagerly awaiting an update.
Also, last night I went with John to see the UI Symphony Orchestra for Mozart’s birthday. It was excellent. It sure is fun to do things other than homework.
Anyway, its Saturday night, so I’ve got plenty of exciting things lined up–like reading for class– and–doing laundry and maybe even burning some DVD-Rs! er.. things lined up…
dear joey,
in efforts to be impressed with your poking hacks, i poked you at precisely 3:01pm, and now it is 4:06pm and yet no poke back!
i still believe in you.
Comment by kristina — January 30, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
Ok, maybe i was wrong about the hour, but that is the fault of launchd. You can see:
Comment by Joey — January 30, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
I’m curious about this Automatic Poke Attack….how does this work……
Comment by Chris — May 10, 2006 @ 7:59 pm
So the Automatic Poke Attack was a hacked together Perl script that would use Curl and Grep and run via cron to check if anybody had poked me, then poke them back if they had. Since I wrote it, Facebook.pm, a perl module API was developed and removed from the internet because it made it very easy to violate the Facebook terms of service. If you are interested in doing something similar, be sure to read such terms of service.
Comment by Joey — May 10, 2006 @ 9:33 pm