Some new drink-related laws come into effect in Ireland today. While I'll find the earlier closing of off licenses inconvenient, I really object to this: "Gardaí will also have the power to seize alcohol if they suspect someone may breach public order".

Today I wrote a script to watch the status of parcel tracking numbers from the an post parcel tracking website. This was mostly done to satisfy my OCD and to watch as my parcel made its way (or rather, didn't) through the labyrinthine delight of the an post postal system. I can't say I'm especially proud of this. Warning: May drive you mad.

Suggested usage:
watch -n 60 ./anpost.py RL123456789IE
Requires Beautiful Soup

I updated spew today.

New things:

• The server is threaded and will handle multiple connections concurrently


• Directories will be served as a single zip file


• New option to serve a copy of itself. Mmm, virusy.


• Option to zip files before serving them

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