now there's an idea

[rone]

The redoubtable Dave Zuckerman writes:

I'm not a huge blog fan.  Every once in a while, just to be contrarian, I think about doing periodic .plan updates, just so I can tell people who ask if I blog that they'll have to finger me to find out!  Bwahahahah!

Now i'm tempted to figure a way to stick my latest LJ entry into my .plan.

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Re: No problemo!

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Ah. rone is a paid user and therfore has the full article text inthe rss feed. So stripping the most recent article from the rss page is even easier than parsing the html page.
The serious way involves an XML parser - the easy way involves the LWP trick with the rss page and split() :)

But I'm not going to do it as an on-the-fly one liner :)

sol.
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Re: No problemo!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I am, actually, not a paid user.

Re: No problemo!

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Hm.

Then either LJ now includes the entire post in the rss description for everyone (it used to truncate unpaid users), or you have short posts :)

Seems they include the whole post for everyone. Oh huzzah.

If you're serious, consider it done - I have code for much of this at home, so given a weekend it should be doable.

sol.
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Re: No problemo!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You are a bad man to tempt me with such toylike trivialities.

Re: No problemo!

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

I was going to say the same to you.

sol.
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While you americans sleep ...

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

We antipodean munchkins toil to make you wondrous gifts. Behold:

9:35pm@kittling~...perl/rone>roneme -u ronebofh

_now there's an idea_

The redoubtable Dave Zuckerman (http://www.panix.com/~daz/) writes:

I'm not a huge blog fan.  Every once in a while, just to be contrarian, I think about doing periodic .plan updates, just so I can tell people who ask if I blog that they'll have to finger me to find out!  Bwahahahah!

Now i'm tempted to figure a way to stick my latest LJ entry into my .plan (http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/cgi-bin/finger?rone%40ennui.org).

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Now for the *hard* cutting and pasting - stripping the HTML.

sol.
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munch, munch

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

9:50pm@kittling~...perl/rone>roneme -t -u ronebofh

_now there's an idea_

The redoubtable Dave Zuckerman writes:

I'm not a huge blog fan. Every once in a while, just to be
contrarian, I think about doing periodic .plan updates, just so I
can tell people who ask if I blog that they'll have to finger me
to find out! Bwahahahah!

Now i'm tempted to figure a way to stick my latest LJ entry into my
.plan.


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The formatting may need tweaking, but I'm sure you can pipe it to fmt before .planning it


Oh, and:
9:50pm@kittling~...perl/rone>roneme -t -i2 -u ronebofh

_now there's an idea_

The redoubtable Dave Zuckerman writes:

I'm not a huge blog fan. Every once in a while, just to be
contrarian, I think about doing periodic .plan updates, just so I
can tell people who ask if I blog that they'll have to finger me
to find out! Bwahahahah!

Now i'm tempted to figure a way to stick my latest LJ entry into my
.plan.


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_blogulate_

Bob Mould has a Web log. His new stuff doesn't appeal to me,
unfortunately. Any comments from anyone out there who's a fan of his
old AND his new stuff?


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You'll need:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Getopt::Std;
use XML::Simple;
use HTML::FormatText;


Which I consider pretty standard, but then I do this shit for a living.

Let me know your email address (I'm solitaire@tygger.net), and I'll let you know where to pick up the first cut. I'd like to polish it a little before I release it to the world at large.\

Though it's 77 lines of perl. I could just email it to you :)

sol.
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