February 01, 2008

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:44 PM

Dropped Claire off at school and had a smooth commute in. Judging by the forecasts, it may not be so smooth when I need to return home. 08:37am

Listened to SaintCast #86 (related link) and a lil' "Threshold of Hope" (related link) on the commute in. 08:40am

The Milford school system dialer just called to let us know that the kids will be sent home around lunch time because of the weather. 09:28am

Weather Underground changed their HTML format again, but this time it's very badly formed and my HTML parser barfs on it. Argh! 09:32am

I think the school's computer automated dialer is calling me once for each of my children. "Yes, I know already, please stop..." 10:30am

The sleet and freezing rain is looking nasty. I'm going to head home and finish the work day from the home office before I-495 stops moving. 01:22pm

Thank God! I'm back home safe and sound. The highway was every environmentalists worst nightmare: heavily salted to keep them unfrozen. 03:28pm

The 2/3's of my trip that is back roads was not as simple. I had to take it slow and be thankful for my winter snow tires. 03:36pm

I just put the twins to bed after watching a new 'Diego'. The girls are watching 'The Game Plan'. I did a little reading. 07:31pm

I''m going to overhaul my weather scraping script to use Weather Underground's mobile HTML page. It's simpler to interpret. 07:32pm

Fixed my script that scrapes the weather from Weather Underground for our site. Hopefully this version will be more robust long term. 09:19pm

Michelle and the girls enjoyed 'The Game Plan'. I saw bits of it while debugging Perl code. It looked like a decent Disney family film. 09:21pm

An ice storm warning is still in effect until midnight. I pray that we don't lose power. Neither the stoves nor furnace work without it... 09:44pm

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