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Maybe one day, I’ll convince myself that using MySQL transactions is a good idea, and start using them whenever I do SQL writes.

In related news, I just NULLed out all my coverdata fields in my mythTV’s mythvideo table. Regenerating all of that crap is really tedious, as the website’s API I use gets flaky after I hit it with a few hundred requests in a matter of minutes. :(

Sigh.

Update:

All fixed.   Took ~90 lines of python.  Good script to have around anyway:  looks for entries with no/missing/invalid coverfile and tries to re-fetch it from thetvdb.com.  One day I’ll get all this crap into SVN.   I’m getting quite the collection of these handy scripts. :)

New personal goal: update this thing more regularly.

Earlier tonight, I was on gTalk talking to one of my friends/coworkers, and Sarah decided to start typing random characters at him. “ddrtggtfrg” is what came out, and my coworker thought it was an acronym for something. He made one up and submitted it to urban dictionary. Unfortunately, it’s still pending editor approval, but you can view the preliminary entry. (hopefully that’s not cookie-based or anything)

I signed up as an editor in hopes of seeing our entry quickly, but instead I ended up editing 80+ random new entries. Most looked like they were written by 13 year olds pissed off at their friends or teachers, but there were some gems in there. Maybe I should make moderating urban dictionary a weekly task of mine. :)