Archive - Aug 2004

I have some GMail accounts I can give out.

Here's the deal:

If you can answer 'Yes' to these two questions, then let me know.

1. Do I know you?
2. Do you want one?

I'm keeping this fairly simple for now. I don't want to tax anyone too much at this time on a Sunday.

Jodie and I won last prize in the RDA's Car Treasure Hunt. Yea! At least we won something. And we only took a wrong turn twice, which involved a total of about 4 miles extra road before we were back on course. We completely forgot to stop and pickup any of the 'scavenger' items being entirely too focused on the observation quiz portion. Don't talk to us about the music quiz CD that we had to deal with. Personally I blame that for distracting us from missing one of the directions that resulted in our second 'detour'.

A house guest, a funeral, three films and a stage musical comedy.

My cousin, Jodie, came over from Northern Ireland on Wednesday for some exams. We went to see The Bourne Supremacy only an hour or two after I picked her up at the bus station in Edinburgh. I should point out that I actually dragged her to see it, as I wanted to see it, and she hadn't even seen the first film. I'm a bad person.

I have to drive to a garage in Broxburn first thing tomorrow morning. They need to replace the clutch cable on my car as part of a Safety Recall Notice. First, this is annoying that I have to take the time out of work to go do this myself. Second, I've gone and left the address on my desk at work. So tomorrow I'll have to go into work first, to get the address, look up a map, then go to Broxburn. Third, I'll have to go through the Bridge Traffic the Wrong Way.

Early start then. I ought to be asleep by now then.

I just received a GMail account from {Simon Proctor}. Thanks. Very nice. Lots of nice little touches that I'm surprised are available in a web based email. Must lots of JavaScript in the background, but despite that, the page's are fast. Works in Firefox, obviously. Simon wouldn't have touched it otherwise.

Right now I'm resisting the urge to subscribe to lots of mailing lists just to fill the Inbox and play with the filters and the searching. Perhaps later, when my will to resist is weaker.

They have arrived. They are Good.

Quick and dirty little script using Find::Feed to get a list of URL's from a web page. This adds nothing original to the modules, it mearly makes it available as a commandline tool.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Feed::Find;
die "URL missing!\n" unless $ARGV[0];
my @feeds = Feed::Find->find($ARGV[0]);
print join("\n",@feeds)."\n" if @feeds;

I may just have too many films in my Rental Queue at webflix.co.uk. I'm currently sitting at 240 titles. At my present rate of, at most, 2 films a week, that means my queue will last nearly two and a half years.

M. Night Shyamalan is now 4 for 4.

After reading about del.icio.us many times on Library Stuff I finally cracked and created an account and started putting some bookmarks into it. Much faster than FURL, which I had been trying but found to be so slow that it was more of in annoyance than useful.