What does a geek do when waiting for shiny to arrive? Writes a libnotify client around Citylink's parcel tracker, of course:

Source available, patches welcome.

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Tags: GNU/Linux
Planets: ALUG UWCS WUGLUG Debian

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  1. This is extremely related: http://xkcd....

    I think I'll have a go at adding support for the Danish postal service, but I'm rather a hack at python and have never used git, so don't get your hopes too high.

    Jonas

  2. Thank you! Complete code showing how to both use libnotify and the gobject sleep function from within python! Thank you again. It's made a daily task of mine a little more bling-bling :)

    (Task is not so bling-bling though -> Checking a number of internal academic repositories for updated content - <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html" title="Link to OAI-PMH home" rel="nofollow">OAI-PMH</a> and RePEc)

    Ben

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