The old one needed love.

The string escape syntax isn't obvious without spending serious quality time with the man page. (It's only slightly more intuitive than hand editing sendmal.cf.) Anyway, here it is:

# ~eater/.screenrc

shell -${SHELL}  # dash (-) is for login shells
shelltitle ''
vbell on
autodetach on
startup_message off 
defscrollback 8192

hardstatus alwayslastline
hardstatus string "%{= ky}%-Lw%{=r}%20>%n %t%{= ky}%+Lw %{= ky}%-=| %{= kw}%M%d %c%{-} %{=r} ${USER}@%H "

# %{= ky}     set color to yellow on black.
# %{= yk}     set color to black on yellow.
# %{=r}       reverse the color attrs
# %-Lw        all window #s, titles, and flags before the current window.
# %n %t       current window number and title.
# %+Lw        all windows #s, titles, and flags after the current window.
# %-=         pad remaining spaces.
# %M%d        month and day, like MmmDD.
# %c          current time, like HH:MM.
# %H          hostname

I added explicit comments for the escapes in the string. I hope that helps someone!

Remember that you can name your windows for sessions you keep around a while. Use "ctl-a A" to name them on the fly. Use "ctrl-a [num]" to jump to the window number you want.

Not only does MySpace obfuscate links, now they're completely blocking a link to my blog.

I have a link to blog.eater.org on my profile. Today I noticed it has been disabled, with the following (completely inaccurate) notice:

The link you are trying to visit has been disabled.

You have reached a link that is no longer in service. That means the link was very naughty, and, much like head lice, had to be eliminated before it spread.

You may be asking yourself, 'Hey, what was it about that link that got it in trouble?' An excellent question! Usually, it's one of the following reasons:

- The link was spam! No one likes spammers, and we don't like their links.

- You almost got phished! There are people out there who want to steal your MySpace password. They want to log in as you and send spam, harass your friends, change your profile, and generally run amok. Phishing pages are usually designed to look like MySpace to trick you. Other sites may also ask for your MySpace login information to customize your profile, insert videos or slide shows, track visitors, or any number of other things.Don't make it easy for them. ONLY USE YOUR MYSPACE LOGIN INFO ON WWW.MYSPACE.COM!!

- Viruses are not fun! Neither is adware, spyware, or malware. We cut the links to places that are known sources of infection.

If you really did want to check out some spam, viruses, or phishing pages, we're really sorry to have interrupted. We're sure you can find it elsewhere. There's plenty on the Internet

Amazing!

In other news, I don't think anybody uses MySpace any more. Go figure.