Torino 2006 Standings on your Google Homepage

For anybody who’s following the Olympics, I spent a couple hours this afternoon creating a Google Personalized Homepage module for the current medal standings.

If you want to add it to your page, click on the ‘Add Content’ link, and paste this URL into the ‘Create a Section’ box.

It might be a little slow/ugly/etc. but it’s the first module I’ve attempted to write, and trying to do a screen scrape of a web page in JavaScript is an experience not unlike banging your head against a concrete wall… repeatitly… for an entire day… and then getting hit by a bus.

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Unfortunately Geoff

Found on Meyerweb: try to Google your first name, prepending “unfortunately”.

• Unfortunately Geoff is utter crap at telling jokes!
  I can’t dispute that. There’s a reason I studied Engineering and not comedy.
• In its original dust jacket, a first edition of Tarzan of the Apes is worth about $75000 – unfortunately Geoff doesn’t yet have one.
  Geoff didn’t even want one, until he learned it was worth 75G!
• Unfortunately, Geoff died several years ago.
  Damn, somebody could’ve told me about that.
• Unfortunately Geoff did not in the early days have the benefit of a competent and experienced gambist with a clear concept of sound: we were all fumbling in…
  To this day, I still don’t have a good gambist.
• Unfortunately, Geoff was too available to one of his friend’s who was addicted to heroin — and this cost.
  Really? I’m unsure of the exact cost, and who was addicted. But apparently the addiction is in the past tense, so everything’s OK now.
• Unfortunately, Geoff was found too late.
  Too late for what? Maybe this has something to do with my death, several years ago. Perhaps they found my body too late to inform me.
• Unfortunately, Geoff’s regression checker took a snapshot within this short window.
  Sounds like there was some issue in that sort window… now I have no protection against regressing.
• Unfortunately, Geoff and Carolyn are those people, and there are thousands more who pour untreated contaminants and detergent directly into the storm sewers…
  I thought that’s what they were for! And who’s Carolyn? I don’t believe I know her.
• Unfortunately Geoff didn’t realize that he was exhibiting classic symptoms of macular degeneration.
  Yeah, that could be true. I still don’t realize that.
• Unfortunately, Geoff was right.
  I fail to see how that’s unfortunate. It’s expected, really.

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You don’t know how much you own

…until you try to move it all.

Cliche, I know, but apparently it’s true.

Over the next couple of weeks, I’m faced with the daunting task of deciding what to take to California with me, and what to leave here in Newfoundland.

I’ve already decided to leave my car behind. It dosen’t have air conditioning, plus with Google’s incentives it’s a good chance to treat myself to a nicer car (still not a definite decision, but hopefully).

The harder decisions are in the other things, like ‘do I take all my CDs, even though I have MP3 copies (for personal use, of course… it’s easier to play them off the HD or the iPod than to swap discs)’, and ’should I take my oscilloscope?’ If I decide to return things like that would get expensive to ship, and I really don’t use it all that often.

As a side note, I apologize for no post last week, but I’ve been busy and it just fell off my to-do list. But, as a result of my busyness, I’ve been to California again and and got a nice apartment lined up.

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