Monthly Archives: February 2008

Feed Twitter an RSS feed with Perl.

Here’s a more concise script to feed Twitter an RSS feed; in this case the latest post to the Sonic.net MOTD Blog. The following code grabs the latest entry in an RSS feed, pulls out the URL and as much … Continue reading

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Ultrasound of new edition to the Schwer Family.

New Schwer arrival (aka Cookie) – Ultrasound Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. We’ve nick named the newest Schwer “Cookie”; like Angela’s baking a cookie; we don’t find the sex out for a while, but due date is end of August.

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Twitter Feed – feed your blog to twitter.

I should have been using Twitter Feed this whole time to feed the Sonic.net MOTD Blog to the Sonic.net Twitter Bot; also instead of sending out a Tweet every time I blog, or find something cool via Google Reader; I’ll … Continue reading

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Sonic.net updates via Twitter

Get updates about your favorite ISP from Twitter; just send “follow sonicnet” from your favorite Twitter device. You can check out the sonicnet page to see what you’ll be getting. The code for this is made possible by the Net::Twitter … Continue reading

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Fun with facial hair.

Beard – front Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Angela was at a movie with friends; Davis was asleep, and I clearly needed to shave; thus was born the documentary: “Fun with facial hair”. http://flickr.com/photos/augie/sets/72157603847033541/

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Perl , $SIG{CHLD} = ‘IGNORE’ , system() and you.

Note: This has been in my drafts for a while, but I think it’s ready for publishing.. At first blush you probably would not expect the following to print “-1″; as you probably expect “system” to execute and return the … Continue reading

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