I want to be able to keep up to date with the goings on of my congressman, senators, and I want Perl to help me.
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Between the Senate website, and Thomas and WWW::Mechanize this isn't so far fetched at all.
Subject: Re: Sam Ruby: Anatomy of a Well Formed Log EntryS From: Aaron Straup Cope To: Kellan Date: 17 Jun 2003 08:41:53 -0400 <snip> > Just in care you were, you know, wondering what a weblog was :) </snip> It frankly baffles me (actually what really baffles me is why they removed the Emacs key-bindings from Evolution 1.4 but that's another story.) What precisely drives this ever-faster flow of tripe about weblogs being "revolutionary"? I'm sorry but I just can't talk about weblogs the same way I might about, say, the wheel or, more recently, electricity. About the only comparison you can make between wheels and weblogs is that there isn't much you can say about them, when you get down to the brass tacks, and that is precisely what's so special about them. Wheels are round and that's their killer-app, so to speak. We've gussied them up with things inside them, we've gussied them up with things around them; but nothing has changed their fundamental nature: they're round and they travel well. End of story.