although i have lots to do, i got bored enough to start messing around with perl regular expessions ...

and i managed to build a xanga journal backup utility. i had e-mailed xanga twice before asking them when they were going to build a "backup" feature. they replied back twice saying, "it's coming soon." this was more than a year ago.

well i got tired of waiting. i managed to get a script to crawl my xanga, extract relevant information (entry & datetime), and display it. i think i may put this little tool on roykim.net ... could be quite useful.

for now i've been just getting the data to output to the screen, but i think i may do something to tabulas.com and output in both HTML and RSS format. the RSS format could be plugged into almost any journaling software and the HTML copy could be for your own records.

any thoughts? crossposted into my xanga since i know some of you heathens still are using it (if you're wondering where i'm posting this from, go to http://www.tabulas.com )