Google Alerts

brian_d_foy on 2003-12-10T04:22:01

I am very vain, or ... paranoid.

Either way, Google Alerts told me that boo_radley modified my text denisty program o be syntattically aware. As a side benefit, I learned about a Perl module I have not used, but may want to use in my module browser.

Too bad the post did not have source, but maybe someone can send it to me.

So, to recap: boo_radley good, fedayeen militia bad.


vainglorious googling

inkdroid on 2003-12-10T15:07:17

For a chicago.pm talk about SOAP I wrapped up by explaining a small utility called googling which you can run from cron like so:

45 06 * * * /home/google/googling --query="inkdroid" --email="ehs@pobox.com"

So every morning at 6:45 a little job runs and looks for inkdroid in google and emails me new hits. It has a memory using a sqlite db.