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[The real story is here.](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/800583-85.stm). From [jwz](http://jwz.livejournal.com/809004.html).
Random Things Of The Week
* Leah had the flu on Monday, and I have been fighting my allergies all week. Then, on Wednesday, I got my flu shot. I didn’t feel too bad on Wednesday night, but things weren’t good on Thursday morning. I worked from home in the morning, and then the fever hit. On Thursday night, it got up to 100.5 %deg; Needless to say, I stayed home today (Friday) as well.
* When I first read about [MacFusion](http://macfusion.makalumedia.com/) I thought it was a little silly. But I use [MacFuse](http://code.google.com/p/macfuse)/sshfs a lot and the command line kept timing out — I would sometimes have to wait a second when I saved a remove file. So I installed MacFusion and was surprised on how well it managed the connections. And I thought it was a full-fledged GUI. But its really just a toolbar application. Which is better, IMHO.
* Gina made [purple cows](http://blackdog4kids.com/holiday/summer/go/picnic/cow.html) the other night in celebration of the Rockies being in the World Series. I sincerely hope they at least win one game in the series.
Huh, they printed it
The paper printed [my letter ](http://mike.hostetlerhome.com/2007/10/17/open-letter-to-mat/) on Thursday. I didn’t even know until a co-worker as me about it. And someone on the evening bus cut it out and passed it around.
They didn’t butcher it too much — but they did take out the part of the wheel falling off. And the heading was titled “Need more bus routes” but that wasn’t really my point. Oh well, at least my message got out.
Here is the World-Heralds version:
> I live in west Omaha, and I took a job downtown about a year ago.
>
> One thing that made the decision easier was the Metropolitan Area
> Transit express bus routes. The bus picks me up close to my house
> and drops me off in front of the office, and the return trip is
> the same. The trip downtown is 30 minutes and doesn’t take any
> longer than driving myself.
> However, in the past year, we have had buses that didn’t have heat
> on subzero mornings or buses without any air conditioning on
> 100-degree days.
> MAT’s focus seems to be on providing most bus routes east of 72nd
> Street. I would think that with such high fuel prices, MAT would
> provide reliable service to where the population is expanding. It’s
> shame that a growing and vibrant metropolitan city like Omaha has
> such a poor vision for public transportation.
Mike Dives Into Greasemonkey
I wrote my first Greasemonkey script this week. I consider this a big step in my JavaScript self-education.
The script wasn’t complicated. I’d post it, but it was for an internal report that I’ve been working with so it really wouldn’t be worth your time. The report is a list of customer and some information about them. My XML version of the report went by customer ID, but the report on the web only had customer name — but it did have the Customer ID as a tooltip (why? Who knows?) So my Greasemonkey script just found the Customer ID in the tooltip and put it next to the customer name. The only big deal was the regular expression that found the ID in the JavaScript function that makes the tooltip. Yeah, the HTML sucked.
I wouldn’t have been able to do it without Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Dive Into Greasemonkey, which is really his Greasemonkey Hacks book online.
Next step: Using YUI in GreaseMonkey Scripts. Then the outside-world website hacking will begin!!
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