Lol, considering I haven't even written a shell script beyond "hello world", maybe longer than an afternoon. However, the reason for my lack of programming ability is that i've had no real projects, so this gives me one (and a python one to boot). expect to hear back from me after a few weeks (that's optimistic).
thanks a lot for the assistance! --- Original Message --- From:"mike begley" <[email protected]> Sent:Fri 1-16-09 9:21 am To:<[email protected]> Subj:[saturdayhouse] Re: Meme reiterator > a couple of years ago I read in mind performance hacks the > idea about creating an "exo-self". > > Currently I use twitter to store ideas I come up with that > are important for my development. Over time I forget these > ideas. I though it would be good to have twitter randomly > text message one of my posts back to me to help imprint these ideas. > > I wish I knew how to do this... It shouldn't be too hard at all. Twitter messages are all available via http. So you could write a perl or python script that does the following: 1) gets the list of messages in your store from http://twitter.com/YourTwitterName or http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TwitterNumericId.rss. The latter may be easier programatically because it comes across in an easily parsible XML format. 2) Randomly selects a message 3) Sends you a message. I see perl libraries for MSN & Yahoo messengers, so this shouldn't be too hard a problem. Anyway, cron this up on a net-connected unix box to run once an hour or day or week or whatever you want as a frequency, and it's all done. Sounds like an interesting project that shouldn't take more than an afternoon to get running. Ping me if you need help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
