Month of October, 2003

New on the Code page...

There’s been a bit of uploading on the Code page. Enjoy!

AppleScript

agoogleplex - search Google with a selected headline in NetNewsWire.

anentry - emails a selected NetNewsWire headline to whomever via Mail.app.

Perl

howquaint.pl - have your computer greet you when you open a terminal window.

musearch.pl - search macupdate.com from the CLI.

vtsearch.pl - search versiontracker.com from the CLI.

Shell Scripts

grabcamino.sh - grabs most recent nightly build of Camino and opens it in default decompression program.

grabgutindex.sh - grabs most recent index from Project Gutenberg.

grabmetar.sh - grabs current METAR weather for use in a flight sim.

NetNewsWire script: anentry

I whipped up a quick AppleScript to let me email a selected headline from within NetNewsWire. It’s called ‘anentry’ and can be downloaded (along with a README) here:

http://www.celsius1414.com/anentry

Obviously requires NetNewsWire and Mail.app. Could be repurposed by whomever to use another client. Enjoy!

Looks like the Bambino Curse is still on, too...

The exact opposite World Series matchup I was hoping for is now going to take place…and will do so probably unwatched by me. Tom said it best today:

….That is the memory I will take with me into the off-season this year. Not the memory of Oakland losing three straight, nor the Cubs doing the same, but rather a moment of mid-season, when the game is at its lazy best, game after game, under the azure sky in the spring sunshine.

Goodnight, baseball, I will see you when you wake in February.