I subscribe to a feed from Jason Haley. Jason's blog is just a bunch of links to thing he has found, I am pretty sure that he makes his list prior to reading any of them. But Jason's feed reading habits are not what I want to talk about today. One of his links is.

TheCodeProject is a site that hosts user written articles about development for the Windows platform, primarily for the ,Net stuff. Like most user generated sites most of the content sucks. But today I saw something there that is way past the normal suckage. Behold Bat File Compiler. Now at first blush that sound pretty cool, but if you read the article there is no compiling going on, hell there is not even any interpretation of the bat file going on! All this so called compiler does is stick a text file into a resource string of an executable! whats the fucking point of that? I mean it is fucking brilliant. Before my bat file only depended on a cmd.exe now I can depend on the whole .net runtime.

It get more hilarious the closer you look at it.

Take the comments for example: Someone suggests he change code like:

if x > 0:

    return True

else:

    return False

into

return x > 0

and people actually argue that that change makes the code less clear! Someone need to explain to me how removing 3 lines make it less clear

Or the guy who claims that it would be perfect if only he was encrypting the text before storing it in the executable, so no one can break in and change his bat file. It should be made clear to people that by writing the file out to %TEMP% he is already giving aways the contents of the bat file. Just because the text was unchanged when he wrote it out doesn't mean it wasn't changed between write out and execution. This is something that none of the people commenting on this wonder of a utility seem to grasp. Not even the guy who wrote the damn thing, for proof not the what the dumbass replied when ask what the fuck the point is

His program does nothing to protect the contents of a bat file, and it is already possible to run a batch file without creating a window.

The guy's other article are equally hysterical. It is a shame that the few useful article on the site are buried under a mountain of crap like this.

Another fun trick this enable is try storing the stub program (the part that writes out the bat file and then call CreateProcess on it) in itself, for a complicated fork bomb.

Ice 101 is better that Rumple Minze, but YMMV

I quick review of one of todays new sets. Dynamite's Grease Monkey:
Best picture:
Nice mittens.

Weirdest/Creepiest:
It is rather androgynous

However other than that one picture, I have only one question how does a hammer and a pipe wrench, make you a grease monkey?

The new interface here on the site has it good points and it's bad. For instance it is visually stunning, however it take forever to load over dialup. The tag system is horrible, it is beyond words how bad it is.(more on this if I ever get it written down.)

I also like the "Faves" page that says "neuromancer has no favorite pictures. How can this be?" Lacks anyway to let 'them' know that I lack any favorite pictures because I am a pathetic loser who has never picked any.

There is also an ad that runs across the top of the page for a Tatu albumn entitled "The Best". How can a pair of russian fake lesbians put out a best of albumn, it says sad things about the world.

I now have a job, and some Apeach Absolut. This is a major improvement over my last post. I never used to be a fan of the flavored vodka, however a freind of mine had a bottle of melon Skyy. That was some incredible great shit. The only problem that I see is that you cannot get 100 proof flavored. The melon Skyy was only 70 proof. Which just takes to long to get me fucked up.

I have no money, no job, and to make matters worse I just drank the last of my vodka. Fuck.