Personal Dork Assistant

Installed the Jaguar Developer Tools

Installed the Jaguar Developer Tools so I can get Plucker working on Powerbook. the Plucker package is sparsely documented, but it's not so bad if you're used to Linux installs, and it's a little easier on MacOS X now that Python is pre-installed in Jaguar. It makes for a nice replacement for AvantGo, even if it can't get into the New York Times site. I'd already created some scripts to scrape the SFGate front page to make it less crufty for AvantGo's custom channel parser, so Plucker can go right in and grab those pages without trouble. Although being able to read the Chornicle Sports Pages on the Palm isn't exciting right now, when the paper is on the front steps every morning. I can probably move the scraper scripts to my own system and make it completely self-sufficient, thanks to the Unix tools. Screw Perl, it's all about sed and awk, damn it. It would be nice to do this with a language library that understands HTML, though, instead of having to search for angle brackets all over the regexp. On the other hand, a real man should be able to do anything he damn well wants (within reason) given a Turing-complete grammar.

Being able to pop in a CD and double-click on the installer hardly makes me a stud. I mean, being able to download and install software barely qualifies one as a tech monkey, even if it's Free and Open Source and all that. The world will be a better place as soon as people realize the fact.