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Saturday, Mar 21, 2009 - 02:38 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Fishing For Links

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* Refbacks implemented (nearly a year after track/pingbacks) for individual blog posts.


Mostly gotten over the seeming departure of Mr. Fish, especially after I realised that it is now no longer inconsistent to consider him perpetually with me, given that his actions were never too hard to predict (a mentality that might perhaps be disrespectful with humans); getting bitten by formless teeth is, after all, less painful.

(Strange how this happens to a dedicated omnivore, and one who has dissected a chlorofoamed white mouse in secondary school bio class...)

Coded refback functionality for the blog when I had a spare hour at the school labs after meeting my FYP advisor (who has admitted to being "concerned" at my progress). Hey, programming practice is programming after all!


Refbacks essentially examine any webpage that has linked to a blog page, and extract the link and surrounding text for context. This is in fact not very difficult at all, since browsers usually supply the referer header with the required information to the blog script. All that is needed is therefore to grab the referring page and analyse it. This supposes that someone does actually click the link, but I suppose that is a very reasonable assumption for a meaningful link.

A few issues: Firstly, this incurs an overhead, which can possibly be minimized by saving the addresses of all previously visited links, so that they need not be checked in future. Given this blog's current traffic, however, this is hardly necessary. Secondly, refbacks are potentially spammed, but I guess this is true for almost any sort of blog feedback. Thirdly, refback potentially occurs without the link originator being aware that his link is being recorded, but this is mitigated by the fact that the text extraction can only occur if the page with the link is accessible to the general public in the first place.

Finally, some sites implement ref/track/pingbacks by mixing them in with regular comments. For now, I have opted to separate them, as I feel they tend to break the flow of conversation when handled that way.

This may be a good place to consolidate the (selected) reactions to the Not Very Curious Case of Mr. Fish, from various media:

(from Facebook)

"ah neh? fun?" [Fish's Note: REALLY WTF IS THIS]

"sad la. no one to fight with ham for food liaoz." [Fish's Note: He's in a different weight category leh]

"holly cow! which 1 died! the one u kept taking out? or the other 1?... so.. u gettin' another 1 anot?n how did u dispose it, flush down the toilet bowl? basket u, i noe u 1 ah, better give proper burial + rites for all the crazy, indescribable things u've done to it" [Fish's Note: I wholeheartedly agree!]

"Oh no... no more Brazilham interviews?!" [Ham's Note: Huh I played all the characters in Ham & Fish #8, Fish only photoshopped it Fish's Note: Still in contract negotiations.]

"R.I.P. F***er" [Fish's Note: I KNOE U ONE AH]


(from MSN)

"natural? lifespan so short? (on Mr. Ham) the fat reserves might help sustain it for a bit more. new science: fat is healthy" [Fish's Note: FATTY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

(on Fish's blog contributions) "eh ello. he NEVER contributed lei. is u smoke us 1. nabei." [Fish's Note: WAH just becoz I am hamster I cannot achieve as a blogger issit?? I fark u one time not enuff!]

(on Fish's re-employment terms) "sobz. damn sad. exploitnig [sic] the dead sia." [Fish's Note: Hear that? I want a raise]

"ssss" [Fish's Note: SSSS]

"ssss" [Fish's Note: ...Your friends dun have much imagination, do they?]

"how come? no apparent reason? then is fish & chips or bacon? then u plan to get replacement? then u bury it?" [Fish's Note: Not bad at all...] "...ssss" [Fish's Note: ...]

"it was quite sudden? i see.. didn't show any prior signs of illness?" [Fish's Note: Yes! I faked them all!]


Greater love hath no ham than this




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5 comments


C.Wenhoo said...

Dunno if you would take offense at any suggestion that your hamsters are/were mistreated,

but is it possible that FFchips was placed under extreme stress? Meaning when you play with it you think you are playing with it but it is actually constantly afraid.

I've had a certain experience with that...


March 21, 2009 - 15:30 SGT     

gilbert said...

hmm the thing is that we very seldom play with FFchips coz he tends to bite leh. its the HGbacon that gets grabbed usually as he is too lazy to protest.


March 21, 2009 - 21:02 SGT     

Fish F. Chips said...

偏心! :(.


March 21, 2009 - 21:29 SGT     

anonymous said...

how come dead already can speak chinese


March 21, 2009 - 22:03 SGT     

Fish F. Chips said...

像鬼一样吗


March 21, 2009 - 22:16 SGT     


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