DJ's Weblog

Well, a little evening hack while watching Inspector Morse has produced a minimalist script wget.pl – a tiny wrapper around the wget command so that you can be more polite when retrieving HTTP based information – in particular RSS feeds. The idea was sparked by Simon‘s post about using HTTP 1.1′s ETag and If-None-Match headers. [...]

If you want to avoid a stint in Accident & Emergency in-patients, and a bandaged ankle, don’t bolt down the stairs at Clapham Junction station two at a time and then miss your footing before you get to the bottom. Ouch. Ahem.