Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
This is a brief introduction to what I’m thinking for PriDB’s query langauage. It’s a weird mixture of SQL and XPATH right now, so you kinda need to know both. The most simple request will look something like this: SELECT "//*" FROM documentName Such a…
http://patrick.wagstrom.net/mythTorrent/mythTorrent.rss You’re all bright kids, I’m sure you can figure out where this is going.
So with finals comes another great time of the year. The time when I look at my web page and try to fix things that are broken. Most recently I’ve been waging a war over 404 pages. Most of these pages actually exist but were…
GNU Source Highlight is a nice little piece of software that makes it easy to highlight the code that I might want to include in my blog. It doesn’t work for everything, but works well enough and tends to generate prettier output than VIM does.…
Because PyBlosxom builds the dates for the entries off the last modified time for an entry and CVS has a tendency to muck these up I decided to build a little tool fix these. This tool will look for a string like: <!-- Date: 2003-12-09…
I’m having to use the AT&T Graphviz tools quite a bit for generate graphs for my research. As I like programming in Python, I decided to write a simple wrapper that would go and call the actual tools. This wrapper lets you create and save…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is holding a seminar on December 10-11th to talk about voting systems. One of the issues they will address is computer security and openness. Unfortunately, I cannot make it down there because I’ve got finals that day, anyone…
In the same vein as the lasturls plugin, I created a nws/nsfw plugin. Now this one monitors the stream of urls entered in the channel and records them. If someone types “nws” or “nsfw” on a single line by itself, the url is added to…
I wrote a couple of new plugins for PimpBot last night. The first is a module that will take any URL that is posted in the channel over a certain length and submit it to TinyURL to get a tiny version of the URL. The…
Reject was recently updated and as a result of the upgrade some software that was installed on there no longer works, among them the antiquated TCL-SQL module that powered the explain module of B|shop (the ircbot of #zoes). Being as I don’t have access to…