B10[mg]

Last Sunday I went to 013, Tilburg to see Ministry in concert. Joffie was kind enough to accompany me and like predicted. It was awesome!

I tried to smuggle my Canon IXUS in there, but since they have fairly strict rules banning cameras (and they search anyone going in), I left it in the car and had to use my Nokia N95 instead.

The pictures are up at Flickr and I even had a chance to take two clips (crappy quality):

metal, ministry, gig, tilburg, 013, netherlands

I like Y! movies' recommendation system, for it usually turns out quite ok. If they say I like a certain movie, a lot of times, it's true. But ermm, either their system is way off here, or I have a seriously bad taste.

52 people have rated this movie with an average of "dreadful", yet Yahoo happily informs me that I'll probably like this movie. Yay!

movies

Joffie asked me if Web::Scraper could handle authentication while retrieving the website in question. A good question and after digging in Tatsuhiko's code, I noticed that you can simply dump HTML in the scrape function, instead of just the documented URI object.

I remembered Tatsuhiko mentioning integration with WWW::Mechanize somewhere but I couldn't find anything yet. So I decided to write the little Mechanize plugin. Shockingly, and completely surprising, it now carries the name WWW::Mechanize::Plugin::Web::Scraper.

Scrape the planet!

perl, plugin, WWW::Mechanize, Web::Scraper

Today, 19 years ago, one of my favorite pictures of all time was taken

tank man, tiananmen, china