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Team Fortress 2 - Art Direction

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Team Fortress 2 Character Portrait

For those of you who don’t follow the gaming scene, one of the biggest games of the season is Team Fortress 2, which comes as part of The Orange Box by legendary developer Valve. The game is receiving a lot of well-deserved press over its art direction which brings a fresh, cartoony style to a genre which generally opts for a more drab, uninspired motif. The result delivers not only delicious eye candy, but enhances both gameplay and visual longevity as well.

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Procmail recipe for sorting by date

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

This is not a super complex recipe or anything, but I’ve wanted this functionality for a while and never quite got around to working though procmail’s arcane syntax.

Basically it saves a copy of each incoming mail into a folder ‘$YEAR/$MONTH’ so that I can easily go back and look through older mail. It also lets me delete anything in my inbox, knowing I have a backup.

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