Recently I happened to obtain quite a few emails in case of which I wanted to preserve To or Cc list members in my addressbook. GMail interface makes it easy to do it for a few addresses, but very tedious when there are a lot of them (every address must be clicked separately).

I just converted this blog from Serendipity to Blogofile, and I am in the process of converting my bigger and more important Polish blog. The news as such is not particularly important (although I would appreciate a warning in case I spoiled something), but I think that the scripts I wrote to aid the conversion may be of use for somebody.

To resolve the disconnection problems I migrated mekk.waw.pl to another Linode datacenter, now it is operating from London. So far it seems that it helped, not a single disconnection during first day of work (while from Newark there were a few connection breaks an hour).

You could notice that, since December, WatchBot started to have connectivity problems. The most visible effect is that a lot of games are splitted into many separate parts in spite of the fact that no adjournment by players took place.

I started using RememberTheMilk more seriously, faced some limitations, decided to script over them and, in the result, my previously described module evolved to mekk.rtm.

In the past I wrote some helper tools for Nozbe, but today I am telling this service good bye. Short explanation why can be found below, but mainly I publish this article to describe how I moved my projects and actions from Nozbe to RememberTheMilk.

Important update to my Calibre scripts (described previously here and here):

• Calibre 0.7.* is supported and should work,
• installation and distribution method has completely changed, the package is now available from pypi, so can be easy_install-ed.

Two small updates to the WatchBot website:

• whispers made by the people playing the game are marked with different background color,
• new quick search option is present in the sidebar.

Some updates to my Calibre helper scripts (which I described previously here): ISBN guessing script covers wider range of file formats, there are also two new scripts: one converts all .doc files to .rtf, another one crosschecks disk directory against Calibre database and reports documents not registered by Calibre.

A few small, but possibly useful improvements of the WatchBot search. It is now possible to search games by the result, use any rating ranges, and limit search to games commented by at least a few players.