Amazing Catch on the boundry line by Adam Voges

In the Twenty20 International played on 15th February 2009 between Australia and New Zealand, Adam Voges (Aus) pulled of this amazing catch to dismiss Brendan McCullum at a crucial stage of the game.

Carry on Ponting ...

Ponting spoke before he had seen a replay but challenged Vettori to be sure of his Haddin criticism. "It's a bit much, he's basically claiming [Haddin's] a cheat, isn't he? That's a bit strong unless they're 100% certain.

"We'll wait and see. If [a replay] does show anything that Brad is in the clear, I'll certainly be letting Daniel know about it. It's probably worth Haddin having a chat to him as well. He's basically had a bit of a crack at Haddin's make-up."

That's what Ricky ponting said after Neil Broom had been given out bowled of Michael Clarke, when Haddin's gloves were in front of the stumps and knocked off the bails, with Michael Clarke's delivery also appearing to head over the stumps. Neither umpire noticed Haddin's movement, which should have led to a no-ball, but it was clear on the replay. So here's the replay ponting did not see ... 

Chappell-Hadlee Trophy - 1st ODI Australia v New Zealand (match link) 

Django documentation search bookmarklet

Here is a simple bookmarklet to search the Django documentation. To use it, simply drag this bookmark - Search Django Docs- to your browser's toolbar.

Click on the bookmark, enter a search term and you will be taken to the Django documentation search page with search results for your search term.

Disclaimer / Terms of Use

Obviously, this is not an official Django Search bookmarklet. I had created it  for my own use and sharing it with you. The search bar bookmarklet is totally innocuous, but nevertheless by installing it you agree I am not liable for anything, period, the end.

Inspired by the Prototype API Search bookmarklet from http://prototypejs.org/api.

Source Code

p=prompt('Search Django Documentation');
if(p) {
  p=p.replace(/\./g, '/');
      // Location is the search query appended to the Django custom search URL      
      loc='http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/search/?cx=009763561546736975936:e88ek0eurf4&cof=FORID:11&ie=UTF-8&hl=&sa=Search&q='+p.toLowerCase();
window.open(loc); // Open in new window
};
return false; // Inform the browser that the action of opening a URL, should not evaluate

Emosional Atyachar

This is cool :) First there was Dard-E-Disco and now Emosional Atayachar ...

Great strip from XKCD

This comic is really good, if you like this sort of thing.

Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/416/

Leap of faith

The woods are lovely,
        dark and deep,

Inviting me to take a peek

        Keeping faith I take the leap

I break some promises,
        satisfaction I reap

A script to remove spaces from a file name

I face a lot of problem while dealing with files with spaces in their names on the Unix platform. I wrote a script yesterday to change the spaces in a file name to undescores.

It is very useful for changing the names of all files in a directory along with directory names.

Save the script to your home directory or to /usr/bin or some such directory,

Go to the directory in which you want to effect the name change and run
# find . -depth -exec ~/rename.sh {} \;

This will rename all files in the directory so that the spaces in filenames are changed to underscores.

The script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Writen by Mayuresh Phadke (mayuresh at gmail.com)# To change the names of all files in a directory including directory names
# run the command
#
#  find . -depth -exec ~/rename.sh {} ;
#
# This command is pretty useful if you have a collection of songs or pictures transferred
# from your windows machine and you are finding it difficult to handle the
# spaces in the filenames on UNIX
#
#set -x

progname=`basename $0`

if [ $# != 1 ]
then
      echo "Usage: $progname \"file name with spaces\""
      echo
      echo "This utility is useful for renaming files with spaces in the filename. Spaces in the filename are replaced with _"
      echo "\"file name with spaces\" will be renamed to \"file_name_with_spaces\""
      echo
      exit 1
fi

old_name=$1
dir=`dirname "$1"`
file=`basename "$1"`

new_file=`echo $file|sed "s/ /_/g"`
new_name=$dir"/"$new_file

if [ "$old_name" != "$new_name" ]
then
      mv "$old_name" "$new_name"
fi

exit 0

Please let me know if you find this useful/useless or if you have any other comments about it.