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oheadtotoe gozaimasu
by jp
Wed 03 Jul 2002 03:00:19
so I'm going to be keeping a photo-annotated weblog of sorts of the summer program in Osaka, which you can read <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jconnoll/news/robot.html">here</a> if you're interested.
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sarah - Wed 03 Jul 2002 03:01:19
Cool. Neat. Bounce. Wish there was a way we could get warnings on thraxil when people had updated non-thrax blogsthingies.jp - Wed 03 Jul 2002 03:02:19
count on an update every other weekday or so. with all the goodies of the weekend saved for monday. if we were all the scripting genious anders is (sarah, you use OSX as well, right? let me know if you figure out how to do this), we'd have our boxes tell us when the pages had been altered. I know anders does something like that for his newstrolling.anders pearson - Wed 03 Jul 2002 03:03:19
i have several different techniques actually. the old newsfeeds page (which i recently retired) just picked up RSS feeds off various sites that offered them every couple hours. (adding an RSS feed to thraxil is still on my TODO list) i have a little perl+postgres app that sits on my home machine and acts as the homepage in my browser. it holds a list of all the sites that i want to visit on a regular basis organized into a few categories (weblogs, news, and comix) and grouped by how often i intend to read them (daily, weekly, or monthly) which roughly corresponds to how often they get updated. it keeps track of when i visit each site and re-orders the list of links on the page so that sites i haven't visited lately are moved up to the top of the list and sites that i haven't visited within the appropriate time-period (24 hours for a 'daily' visited site) show up with a red background to alert me that i'm behind on that one. if you guys are using OS X, you've already got the power of perl available to you. writing a simple crontabbed script to fetch a few web pages and compare them to a previously fetched version should be pretty simple. if you look, i'm sure a few dozen people have already done something similar. you could also probably do something clever with wget and basic shell scripting to achieve the same effect.