| My contact details: | |
|---|---|
| Email: | s AT msmith.net |
| ICQ: | 173297341 |
| skype: | samsmithmcr |
| Location: | Manchester, UK. |
| I can also be found on silc, msn messenger and irc. | |
For money, I work on interfaces to data. For fun, my interests, in no particular order, include theatre, OpenBSD, UKUUG/UNIX and slacking; some more than others. They come together more often than you might imagine.
I have an LiveJournal account
where I occasionally post theatre and junk, but have
lots of RSS feeds incoming. Much of
my "e-democracy" stuff gets posted to DisruptiveProactivity.com.
I also have an
author's page
on the O'Reilly Network and an
Amazon.co.uk wishlist.
I do various things, most of which don't live here. Things that are here (probably temporarily) include demo code for graphing PublicWhip and TheyWorkForYou data (experimental); the start of RSS of FCO Travel advice; and various ports for OpenBSD (uncommitted). I'm also fiddling with the backstage.bbc.co.uk services, here's some stuff based on that.
Stuff that lives elsewhere: Comparative searching of Direct.gov.uk and Google (I was bored); TheGovernmentSays.com which is about to launch (for 3 years; TGS is a relatively generic RSS aggregator - code will be downloadable at some point). I used to be Webminion for MUGSS and had something to do with pretty much all of the site. I was one of the main cat headers for the Manchester BSD User Group and was website guy for, and on the Council of, the UK Unix User Group I also get credited on WriteToThem.com for doing not very much. I also do random stuff for my day job.
Following
Danny O'Brien's Idea and Simon Cozen's lead
here's the stuff in ~/bin/ which people might want to reuse.
wl2rss Take an
Amazon wishlist URL and create an RSS feed of it.lc rename files to lower case.mstat show recent incoming
mail - wrapper around mailstat (procmail).pp postprocess a mbox file through
procmail.writedatacd Write a data
CD of the contents of a directory.writeaudiocd Write a audio
CD of a selection of WAVs.