Inddiethumpers came to Mood Indigo today. Man, were they awesome! Guess what? I joined them *wink*. Check me out in the video. I'm in the blue t-shirt at the end (second last bike when the 5 bullets stream out).

Video credit: Sheece Man

Synopsis

The following code demonstrates an alien limerick generator. Alien because it does not generate meaningful words. In part II, we'll see how we can add meaningful words.

Code

You can view the code and see it in action here.

Sample Output

orraxa iz hoxori upifoc awhapo ed
ceva ovat ujbazo arli du caded
uc iqek suenvo
zaek ammiip edbeuvo
moix beak kuefyo irogno iluyox xoiqged

In her defence, I was out till 1 am. And I'm good at making silent entries. No wonder chicks fear me.

I met a bunch of school chums yesterday. Some of them I hadn't seen for 10 years now. It was FUN!

[Begin Chorus]
Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I want to go to bed
I've had a little drink upon the Narrow Bow
And its gone right up to my head

No matter where I roam
Whether land or the sea or the foam
You'll always hear me singing this song
Show me the way to go home
[End Chorus]

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of paani
Jack fell down and broke his crown
Jill said Kuch parwaa nahi

[Chorus]

Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he
He called for his wife in the middle of the night
And he gave her a cup of tea

[Chorus]

I was in the 6th grade and my class had organized a party for Christmas. Little kids sang christmas carols. Little me sang that.

And people wonder why I'm so messed up.

I just learnt that my little one got a scholarship yesterday. She's put in a lot of effort. I'm really proud of her.

P.S. My little brother is still annoying.

Synopsis

The following code illustrates the use of FindWindow API. This program blanks out the ad in Yahoo Messenger buddy window. It has been tested on Yahoo Messenger 7.5 and 8.0.

Code

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// This code illustrates hiding the Ad in the Buddy window of Yahoo Messenger
//
// Copyright (c) 2006, Pravin Paratey
// pravinp[at]gmail[dot]com (http://dustyant.com)
 
#include <windows.h>
 
int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR lpszArgs, int nCmdWnd)
{
	HWND hYahooWnd = FindWindowEx(NULL, NULL, "YahooBuddyMain", NULL);
 
	if(hYahooWnd) // Yahoo Messenger is running
	{
		HWND hAtlWnd = FindWindowEx(hYahooWnd, NULL, "ATL:00821BC0", NULL);
 
		if(hAtlWnd) // Found the window
		{
			HWND hShellWnd = FindWindowEx(hAtlWnd, NULL, "Shell Embedding", NULL);
			if(hShellWnd)
			{
				HWND hDocObjWnd = FindWindowEx(hShellWnd, NULL, "Shell DocObject View", NULL);
				if(hDocObjWnd) // This is the window we must hide
				{
					ShowWindow(hDocObjWnd, SW_HIDE);
				}
			}
		}
	}
	else
	{
		MessageBox(NULL, "No instances of Yahoo Messenger found", "Error", MB_OK);
	}
	return 0;
}

Download

You can download the source code or the binary.

Usage

Pretty straight forward. When yahoo messenger is running, double click the exe. The ads window will disappear