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OK... So I get all the updates to Ubuntu done and dusted, then I do a welter of security checks, then I activate Tor, then I re-do the checks... all the while forgetting that if I want to use the RantSheets (the Excel macro sheets that generate my lovely tables and he generated portion of the text) I have to use Excel, since OpenOffice Calc doesn't use the same scripting language as Excel).
I had been meaning to 'port' the RantSheet logic across to PHP - after all, the functionality is tailor-made for a cron-job... curl some data, do some calcs, sort and present the results...
But I had never got more than halfway through the porting process.
Still, it's not that big a deal - it just means that I have to be in Excel (in WinXP) for the 20 seconds it takes to do the RantSheet calcs... I'm going to experiment today to see if I can do that inside a VM under Ubuntu. If so, I can take my time with the conversion from Excel sheet/macros to PHP script.
The kickoff for the new season is still Monday, by the way. Tell anyone you know who you suspect of being a Rant reader...
Pain is French for bread...
