Hey all,
There's a writer's website that some friends of mine
hang out at called AbsoluteWrite. They're a website
for writers who want to help and get help from other
writers. Anyway, they just recently got hosed by
their web host. Seriously hosed. Apparently, their
site got taken down and the host company refuses
to make the database of all their data available to
them so they can move their site to a new location.
(apparently it's a small time host company and the
guy who runs it is married to a woman who decided
she wanted to start her own writer's website, which
conveniently was announced about the same time
that the host took down Absolute Write.)
Anyway, the Absolute Write folks are trying to
scrape together their data getting whatever they
can from google caches and what not, and then
piece it back together with a perl script or something.
They can't pay, but I figured I'd pass the word along
because one of you folks might be able to script
this out in 20 minutes or something. If you can pull
it off and set them up, let me know and I'll buy pizza
for the mongers meeting after next (I already owe
for the one coming up, so...)
Anyway, you can read what they're looking for here:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007593.html#128104
They say they're looking for a "database angel"
and I don't know nothing about no databases,
so I don't know if this is 20 minutes of putting
together some canned scripts, or several weeks
of custom hackery.
If you can help great, lemme know what flavor
pizza you like. If not, sorry for the post.
Greg
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