... is when I'm bored.

pfig asked if anybody knew of a gmail2mbox script.

It just seemed easier to write him one.

This is hauntingly familiar to almost exactly the same situation in reverse a year and a half ago.

Simon Cozens wrote some code to use Yahoo's Term Extraction API to, err, do term extraction. Because I was bored I packaged it up for him and spewed it out onto CPAN.

This now makes me the 14th most prolific CPAN author. This is terrifying.

I recently tidied up various bits of my website and collated all the various hacks in to Perl and C/C++ sections. During this I found a quick script I wrote ages ago called cpanquery which did a fast local search against the 03modlist.data.gz file. To be honest this was back when a higher percentage of modules were in the module list but it was ( Read more... )