Wilful muppetry

Because I didn't fancy the idea of standing in a queue at the Post Office in my winter cycling leggings this AM, I beetled down there in my jeans. This would have been fine had it not been pelting it down with wet snow by the time I hauled the pushbike out of the back of the car half an hour later.

I am now steaming gently from the lower extremities and probably risking a nasty case of Trench Leg. Trench Bottom, of course, is a couple of miles down the river from Stanley Pontlarge. Probably.

On the other hand, it's the first time since forever that I've been quite this stupid.

Unexpected consequences of a closed-source toolchain

The most useful tool I have found for keeping an offline copy of an LJ + comments is the mildly-obviously named 'LJArchive'. It also manages to provide a fairly rapid full text search of entries + comments, which is really very useful indeed.

As far as I can tell (-> . <- this far) it's written in M$ C#, has been abandoned by the author and hasn't worked for some number of months due to $Random-XML-error which appears to be inside the comment-parsing code.

I was going to chunter on about this being unfixable b/c it would require spending ££ on the relevant part of the M$ toolchain, but it seems that the 'Express' version is free for the download (and presumably in exchange for all sorts of details that M$ can use to sell me things).

So instead of whining about it, I'd better bag yon thingy and see if the code is amenable to tinkering by a Unix Curmudgeon.

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