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+Scripts
+=======================================================
+
+“Spending 2 hours to accomplish in 2 seconds what could
+otherwise be done in 2 minutes.”
+
+[Readability simple](http://git.njw.me.uk/cgit/cgit.cgi/readability-simple/) and [remove links](remove-links.js)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+“The ever-present awareness of possibility to either make
+or refuse choice, was to preempt my creating any meditative space
+for myself” — *Sean Birketts, The Gutenberg Elegies*.
+
+[Readability](http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/) is
+a program which decides which parts of a web page make up the core text,
+and rewrites the page to remove anything else. Unfortunately it was
+designed as a 'bookmarklet,' meaning that one must rely on external
+servers for its operation, with the speed, connectivity and privacy
+implications which that entails. I lightly reworked the code to remove
+some unnecessary functionality and ensure it can be easily used locally.
+
+I also created a simple companion script which removes all links from a
+page. I currently use these in [uzbl](http://www.uzbl.org), with the
+command: `chain 'script @scripts_dir/readability/js/readability.js'
+'script @scripts_dir/remove-links.js'`
+
+[Democracy Now! fetcher](fetchdnow.sh)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+The wonderful news programme [Democracy Now!](http://www.democracynow.org)
+provide FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files of all of their episodes, but
+only a RSS feed for the MP3s. This script downloads the latest episode,
+in FLAC, Ogg Vorbis or MP3 format. I use this from a cron job to
+automatically fetch new episodes in my prefered format.
+
+[LWN fetcher](getlwn.py)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+The online publication [LWN](http://lwn.net/) provides excellent news on
+free software each week. However to access the latest issue one needs to
+log in to a subscriber account. This script just automates the login and
+download of the latest issue.
+
+[Encrypt email if possible](encrypt-if-possible.sh)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+One feature I really wanted with the [mutt](http://www.mutt.org/) mail
+reader was to automatically encrypt email to anyone I have an OpenPGP
+public key for. This simple script accomplishes just that, and can be
+easily included in any mutt configuration.
+
+[Gather flagged email](gatherflaggedmail.sh)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+I store my email in Maildir format, in a variety of folders, and read it
+using the mutt mail reader. This setup worked well for me, except that
+there was no way for me to easily see all flagged messages in any folder.
+This script enables this, by creating a dynamic folder with links to all
+flagged email.
+
+[File non-personal email](filenonpersonalmail.rc)
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+I find it useful to keep personal email separate from everything else I
+receive. This is a simple procmail rule which moves email from anyone not
+in my personal [alias](http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#ss3.2)
+file into a different folder. This could be done more neatly with awk,
+but it has always worked perfectly so I'm leaving it be.
+
+[osCommerce Easy SEO URLs](http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5901)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+osCommerce doesn't have a robust plugin system, so it's particularly
+important to me that any modifications I make to osCommerce installations
+are as simple and maintainable as possible. I found this contribution to
+rewrite urls, which nearly did what I needed. I fixed some serious bugs,
+added a few little features, and generally made it a little more robust.
+I am currently maintaining the releases, and (time-permitting) handling
+bug and feature requests.