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Ok, see, I didn't know the entire chain was covered here. I was envisioning having to monkey wrench something together to handle the mail fetching for me (and with GMail, I don't feel like it...dunno if you have to use SSL anymore, but it's enough of a reason to run away screaming).

The script would theoretically be INCREDIBLY simple. I was actually off-base in what needs to be done. Since Telana has cron support, I'll just write a tiny little thing to pull the feed and wedge it into the MySQL database. Probably shouldn't be more than a few dozen lines, really.

Considering I was a bit off base, however, there is a little concern about getting the full article. If it's text only, easy. If Nig expects the images and like to be preserved, it means either linking to the AP's stuff (and hoping they don't get all whiny about it) or retrieving in the script and reformatting the page. Either way, not terrible, but a bit of a concern nonetheless.

Like I said, come Monday I'll have a chance to really sit down and do something. Between CCNA studying, target shooting, sex, and Beth I'm kinda tied up til then at least :/

Nah, I'm good at faking it :P

Seriously, while I know ABOUT this stuff, I don't really know how to DO any of it yet. I just know where to start.

Ok Nig, hook up with me on IRC or IM. I need to know details about your server, and some specifics about what needs to be done.

Particularly: is it your server, or is it hosted? If hosted, do you have Python usable on it? Do you have MySQL? (You'll likely have both). What types of articles are you looking for to be pulled?

I'm not so confident about the actual blog layout, though I could probably find something to use and modify (seriously...I'm horrid at XHTML and CSS, though I do need an excuse to improve). The script, however, should be doable even if I can't do the layout. Someone else could work with the output at least...

Anyway, like I said, hook up with me in real-time. Either IRC or any of my IM accounts on my profile (preferably over Google Talk using my email address, but not a requirement)

I'm renting space from Telana, and I know nothing about it. I wasn't sure yet whether I was going to be hosting it or if someone else was?

Ok, Telana seems to have what I should need. I will progress with the experimentation on my end. I've got a lot going on in the next few days, so don't expect anything until around this time next week at best.

Ahaaaaaa, so you wish to work in real news articles and pepper them with spurious insanity.

Definitely far more complicated from my noobish standpoint, but still probably doable. Now I just need to know what options I have on the webserver. I REFUSE to work with PHP (I hate it, I suck at it, and it makes me cry). So, yeah, it's probably going to have to be Python. Good thing is, Python is pretty common.

The good news is, it does make it a bit easier on me because I don't have to shove embedded code in necessarily (which PHP apparently does better than Python, but I'm no expert).

Eeeeh, that's a little roundabout for my tastes. I like as simple as possible, and I'm looking for an excuse to tinker with a little Python web dev :P

Honestly, this should be REALLY easy depending on the setup. My only issue is potentially not having the feedparser module available on the server, which means I'd need to shove it in there somewhere  (I am NOT writing an RSS parser on my own...yipe).

It depends on Nigel's needs. If she wants auto posts in a blog-like format, I'll probably club WP into doing it. If she just wants it as a little decoration, it's even easier to sandwich in.

Ok Nig, hook up with me on IRC or IM. I need to know details about your server, and some specifics about what needs to be done.

Particularly: is it your server, or is it hosted? If hosted, do you have Python usable on it? Do you have MySQL? (You'll likely have both). What types of articles are you looking for to be pulled?

I'm not so confident about the actual blog layout, though I could probably find something to use and modify (seriously...I'm horrid at XHTML and CSS, though I do need an excuse to improve). The script, however, should be doable even if I can't do the layout. Someone else could work with the output at least...

Anyway, like I said, hook up with me in real-time. Either IRC or any of my IM accounts on my profile (preferably over Google Talk using my email address, but not a requirement)

You knooow...I can make NO guarantees whatsoever as my grasp of web development is shite at the moment, but I don't think it'd be that hard. Probably a pretty simple script. Let me do some toying for a few days before I commit.

does she belly dance when you flex?

Oh she does plenty more than that.

I lurve my tattoo. It looks a little calmer now, what with all the flaking and peeling being long over with.

Have fun at the club, Herb. I hope you catch the clap from a fuckin' skank after all your yayga-bombs.

AUUUUGH :MITTENS:

It took me a minute to figure out WHAT YOU CHANGED.

What's really funny is I'm guessing at least 40% of them are just two more beers away from a little 'incidental homosexuality'.

Oh. Damn. Excuse the n00b posting then.

At least I passed!

So yeah. I have to take my CompTIA A+ exam, first of two. Thanks to some scheduling fuckups, I'm taking the second test first. I haven't taken a test in YEARS (Christ, I'm a high school dropout for a reason) and I clearly know what the hell I'm doing but...talk about ambiguous test questions about 'proper' procedure.

Well, wish me luck. This might get me one step closer to not being homeless!

Well, far be it from me, a lowly noobsaucestress, to tell other noobs how to behave or what to do, but I CAN generally summarize this Wade person pretty quickly, from what little I've seen.

He's a misogynist, and a dickhole, and no one around here likes him, as far as I can tell.

Did I miss anything?

I'm watching what was a wonderful relationship with a beautiful, brilliant girl degenerate before my eyes, because I was too much of a schmuck to own up to my issues. It's ending on a "good note", so it's not like we're angry at each other, but FUCK does it make me incredibly sad. Oh, and less than three weeks until my birthday, and less than one week until Valentine's Day. So much for my plans.

I'm really going to miss her.

/emo

Sometimes, people just aren't ready for each other. I'm sorry to hear about it, but don't beat  yourself up over it.

Yeah, I'm kinda holding out a tiny little hope that, who knows, some day, etc. Silly, but it's something. And at least I'm just really sad this time, not morbidly depressed. Definitely an improvement over how I normally handle these situations.

I'm watching what was a wonderful relationship with a beautiful, brilliant girl degenerate before my eyes, because I was too much of a schmuck to own up to my issues. It's ending on a "good note", so it's not like we're angry at each other, but FUCK does it make me incredibly sad. Oh, and less than three weeks until my birthday, and less than one week until Valentine's Day. So much for my plans.

I'm really going to miss her.

/emo