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!

[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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