Here's wcat , which is short for 'web page cat':

#!/bin/shexec wget -q -O - "$@"

(At some point I may need to add ' -e robots=off ' to this, but Ihaven't needed it yet.)

I have a flaw when it comes to my little scripts :often, I think that sometime is too small and trivial to botherturning into a script, so I don't for ages. And

The more I use Fedora Core 5, the more I've fallen in love with FedoraExtras. (I skipped straight from FC2 to FC5 and FCE came in with FC3, sothis is the first time I've gotten to use it.)

This love is kind of silly, because Fedora Extras is not much more thanFedora catching up to Debian et al in having available a vast amountof prebuilt software. But boy is it convenient to have all that stuffaround, ready to dip

I've finally found a good use for reading blogs in the reversechronological order that everyone (even syndication feed readers)defaults to.

For various reasons, I am way behind in reading the syndication feedsthat I (nominally) follow. In this situation, reverse chronologicalorder turns out to be great for cherry-picking the current news andgetting a quick sense of any important recent developments.

(It's not that the older entries are valueless, but since they've waiteda while already they can