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Scripts
-=======================================================
+=======================================================================
-“Spending 2 hours to accomplish in 2 seconds what could
-otherwise be done in 2 minutes.”
+"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)
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-“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 simple](http://git.njw.me.uk/cgit/cgit.cgi/readability-simple/) and [remove links](remove-links.js)
-[Readability](http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/) is
-a program which decides which parts of a web page make up the core text,
+"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.
+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
@@ -25,24 +26,25 @@ 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.
+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.
+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
@@ -50,30 +52,31 @@ 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.
+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)
+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.
+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.