Mark J Cox : Longest Journey

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12 Feb 2001: Longest Journey

Popped down to "Best Buy" at the weekend and came away with a new adventure game "Longest Journey" and a pair of speakers so I can finally listen to music in the appartment. Spent the rest of the weekend playing the game (it's the best adventure I've played in a long time), writing reports, and thinking of fun things to do with XML-RPC and Python.

My screen-scraping script to convert EGG credit card statements into OFX for Microsoft Money broke and attempts to get EGG to actually output their information in a format other than HTML has failed. I'll switch my credit card to the first provider that offers a SSL enabled XML-RPC interface for interacting with my account and downloading statements and transaction lists. Was thinking of cool things I could have done to the Bradford Robotic Telescope using XML-RPC or SOAP; it could replace all those proprietary communication protocols and systems I wrote and allow others to embed the functionality of the telescope into their own applications. But it looks like the project has died, they've not noticed my Y2K bug for example.

Created: 12 Feb 2001

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Hi! I'm Mark Cox. This blog gives my thoughts and opinions on my security work, open source, fedora, home automation, and other topics.

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