eating cucumbers without permission...

I started using Slogger the other week, and it wasn’t long before its deficiencies started to grate. Slogger is designed to log everything or nothing, but what I needed was selective archiving. I needed an electronic archivist that would only save certain pages — just chapters at fanfiction.net, say; or stories at Slashdot, but not comment pages.

After a week spent stealingre-using code from other projects (I ♥ open source!), and an embarrassingly large number of hours reading XUL tutorials, I present Ark v0.1 for Firefox.

I was very annoyed the other day to learn that the PinkHairGreenEyes Yahoo! Group, along with the owner’s account, was mysteriously deleted. No warning, no explanation. The group served as discussion forum and story archive for fans of Harry/Tonks fanfiction, and, indeed, when you put it like that, it seems a terribly silly thing to care about. And I don’t, not really.

It’s anger at impermanence.

Merry Christmas everybody! Have a free copy of Ark v0.11.

Flashback Home Entertainment is selling packs of ten movies on DVD for $10. There are no special features at all, not even subtitles, but by God are they cheap. The Action and Family packs are collections of straight-to-video crap — when it comes down to it, I don’t think Invisible Mom II is worth even a dollar — but there are some real gems in the Classic Drama and Alfred Hitchcock collections.