Perl and bullets
I'm using perl again for this work thing I'm doing. I haven't touched perl in years, and it became pretty obvious pretty fast that I'm more than a little rusty.
For a while, I've had a couple ideas for a while about how to make my actual journal ( as opposed to my livejournal) alive and prosperous. See, I've got about five times the number of readers on LJ, and it's got nifty client software that's about a thousand times better than the crappy journal entry form on my site.
I like my journal, though. I've had it for about five years. Theoretically, it's supposed to be my testbed for messing around with web programming stuff. But I haven't done that in a while. So, since I need to (a) limber up my perl muscles and (b) make my journal useful again, I decided to put together a little script that pulls specially-tagged lj entries into my blog. Like this one. It's not done, but I'm reasonably happy with it so far.
- First Ray Harryhausen, now Ray Bradbury has dropped off the Ad Astra guest list. That's kinda sad. I was hoping Ray B. would maybe expound on the virtues of a Toronto monorail system. Because that would rock. Lord knows K-W needs one. Monorails are awesome.
- I thought I had more, but it looks like you're going to have to live with just the one bullet this time.