Ministry of Information Retrieval

My copy of Spidering Hacks arrived from Amazon, just in time to distract me from exam marking.
It seems pretty interesting; all about writing scripts for extracting information from web sites, pulling it out of HTML and such. I've got a good mind to (in my copious free time) write scripts for extracting the times from online public transport timetables and get them into a more useful format; perhaps something I can carry around on my Visor.

Oops...

LiveJournal shuts off little-known graphviz interface, which happened to be used by a number of social network visualisation tools. Let's hope they bring it back soon.