Tuesday, November 04, 2008

US Elections: BBC News live feed

The BBC have their own Twitter-like feed of US election titbits. But I didn't want it in a browser... so I wrote myself a little Bash script to do the job for me. Run that through (say) watch:
watch -n 30 elections.sh
and Obama's your Presiden... I mean, Bob's your uncle.

I've a small window pinned to my screen with that in. Hooray for distractions from work!

EDIT: 11.55pm - At some point they changed their format slightly and it confused my regexp. Updated version for download now, same location.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:54 pm

    Um, it appears not to be working...
    http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh2543/images/elections.png

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  2. Anonymous4:04 pm

    OK ignore me. I just blindly copied & pasted that watch command into the terminal, forgetting that I'd saved the file somewhere where bash wouldn't find it unless I gave the path explicitly... (I lose 10 nerd points)

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