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The Opinions of a Loud Mouth Man

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So.ME Congratulations are in order.October 5

If I seem a little non-posting lately it will be because of the arrival of our new child, Harry Butler born on the 5th of Sept 2008 and between then and now I have naturally been a little busy.

One of the things I did wish to do was post an acknowledgment for every message I received from all my twitter followers. This turned out to be an interesting exercise in search tools, php and twitter api.

For the most part the Search feature of twitter provided me a list of users whom had congratulated me.

Those pages  when saved to my hard drive needed to be manipulated using grep and awk to extract all the twitter status IDs part of the process was for me to sort the IDs and to remove any duplicates I may have created. From there I wrote a second program in php which read those numbers and reposted the congratulation  messages in a new page with the included styles so that I could in turn post the results into this po