I was thinking of writing something about Sideways, which Julie and I went to see at the weekend, but Michael Jordan (no, not that one) seems to have summed it up fairly well. Rarely have so few interesting things happened in a movie between a couple of mildly amusing bits.
Also spent a bit of the weekend writing some screen-scraping scripts to automate my production of the irish Setanta listings for the indispensible Digiguide. The
detailed information for each programme on Setanta’s website is
unfortunately contained in a Javascript popup that you can’t get at
with wget, so I thought I’d acquaint myself with AppleScript
for this part of the task (the rest is just relatively simple sed and
awk magic). Several hours of experimenting and googling later,
though, I never did find a way to tell Safari to save a webpage with a particular filename in OSX 10.3.8 (and it seems I’m not the only one)– it just doesn’t seem to work as intended. I ended up doing it with UI scripting instead, which works, but isn’t terribly elegant.