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Update: This tool can be downloaded here

I got pulled over by the police today because I forgot to renew my license plate sticker which has been expired since my birthday in September, but luckily I was driving a friend to his tattoo shop and his shop is right next to the ministry of transport building, so the cop said I wouldn’t get the ticket if I renewed my sticker today, which I did of course. It took this long to catch me because my spare tire makes the sticker hard to see.

I look forward to starting to smell better, as our building has been without consistent hot water for about two weeks, but today finally got a new boiler installed. Unfortunately this also comes with having no more excuse for not doing the dishes.

I have been fiddling with a complete rewrite of my Craigslist search tool. It is several orders of magnitude faster than the old version because it can run 24 searches simultaneously in multiple threads, as well as having various new features. I am still testing and improving it but I will release it in the next few days. It’s been optimized for police who use the tool to track stolen property.

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3 Comments

  1. peetD3 wrote:

    usually im wary of anything that helps the cops…
    but that sounds cool!

    keep on rockin’!

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:26 pm | Permalink
  2. Shannon wrote:

    Yeah that’s my feeling too. Normally I’m not a pro-police sort of guy, because I am opposed to many laws, but in this case — retrieving stolen property — I have no problem helping out because theft sucks.

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:49 pm | Permalink
  3. scienkoptic wrote:

    Nice program gets even better. Thanks for the useful tool!
    Those look like really nice improvements.

    And for once you get a cop that may very well be doing his/her job.

    Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 3:22 pm | Permalink
Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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