use Perl

Living in a tent in the desert sucks, and I am still doing it (although last week I did get to sleep in a building for the first time since I was on leave in November, but that was only one night).

Part of the suckitude is a legal pad full of ideas and no electricity or internet.

• Aforementioned proxy
• mod_perl handler to turn http://.../style.css into the user selected style sheet, like that Zen Garden thing I have heard about (and inkdroid pointed out when I told him about the idea)
• Scripts to automatically post to LiveJournal and use.perl from BBEdit using a contextual menu
• Thingys to add to the MacOS X "Print to..." dialog options like "Post to LJ" and "Post to use.perl"
• command line tool to check the status and relevant information of bills before Congress
• Oh, add a "Complain to Congressman" Print Service.
• A way to mark up an entire book in XML and from that produce a concordnance.

That's just the stuff I thought up last week as I laid in my rack and stared at the top of the tent.