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darobin (1316)
Monday June 30, 2003
11:13 AM
Temperature in France
I was reading through OS X Hacks and fell upon a cool hack: five lines of Perl to call a remote SOAP service, and a little applescript for it to respond to voice commands and answer by telling you the temperature outside.
Unfortunately, it's US centric and only takes US zipcodes
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Or is it a BUG?"
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Re: Global Temps (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know if it supports a SOAP interface yet, but the JFGOAL (Just Fscking Go Outside And Look) protocol is both stable and globally ubiquitous.
;->
-ubu
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re: Temperature in France (Score:1)
It works in Montréal, anyway
Re: Temperature in France (Score:1)
Montréal is not in France, even though most of the residents think it is. :-)
Re: Temperature in France (Score:1)
http://aaronland.info/weblog/archive/3741 [aaronland.info]
But you know I checked wunderground.com [1] to see if they grokked Paris first, right?
[1] A:T:W hands off to Weather::Underground which was also written by a Montréalais(e?)