I’ve sent plenty of big strange packages from Japan, and it’s always been pretty cheap and easy to do. One time, the post office lady spent ten minutes helping me to reduce a package by 20 grammes so I could send it at a lower cost. Another time, I sent an entire Kotatsu with a [...]
I love using the mac text editor, Textmate. It’s fast, has a great interface and looks good. The tabbed interface is a real bonus too, i can keep a few files open and switch between them by typing ⌘-1 or ⌘-2, up to ⌘-0, the same as in Firefox. Unfortunately, every time I switch file, [...]
A screen scraper is a program to get information from websites without clicking a lot of pages and cut’n’pasting from each of them. It’s a way of automatically picking the stuff you want from a site and putting it all into one place for easy consumption. For example, if you wanted to know how much [...]
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about screen scrapers. I wanted a quick way to get lots of information from websites, one in particular, so that I could add it to my maps without all the bother of actually doing any work.
The first one I tried was called Solvent. This is a plugin for Piggybank, [...]
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