I was surprised, because I do make an honest effort to be conservative with resources. I use things until they can no longer be used, do not frivolously buy junk that I won’t use or don’t need. I work from home, so have no commute. I walk a lot and ride a bicycle. My car, which gets average gas mileage, sits in the drive all week without moving, many weeks (however, most weeks I generally do drive c. 30 miles to the roller rink for skating). I recycle stuff, and buy recycled products. I rarely consume prepackaged foods. I turn stuff off when not in use. My apartment is small and relatively cheap to heat, and I keep the heat low in winter. I don’t even have air conditioning (although the questionnaire didn’t even ask about that).
I honestly thought I was doing a pretty good job.

Areas where I know I could improve include: consuming more local produce…maybe…The thing is, I’d likely have to drive more to acquire it, so, it’s hard to say…
I’m kind of at a loss on what else I can do, besides dumping my car (which would mean giving up rollerskating at the rink, which is not going to happen).

I really wonder…if my relatively simple lifestyle is so resource intensive, then your average American household, with air conditioning and two cars (one being a SUV) and prepackaged foods and a new iPhone for everybody every six months, etc., must really be sucking up a BUTT-TON of resources…

So…What’s YOUR ecological footprint?

Changes are mostly minor:

• I altered the README and internal about/help dialogues to reflect the new software wiki location.
• I altered the install.sh to install in ~/bin/, rather than /usr/local/bin, thus no longer requiring root for installation. (also moved the icon from /usr/share to the config dir, ~/.tcltext).
• I removed livejournal and insanejournal posting. (use Xpostulate for that stuff!)

Possible future changes:

• one click pastebin pasting would be good
• both the line number and search/replace features could use some work.
• still no syntax highlighting, which would be immensely useful…

But, that’s enough hacking for tonight; I have stuff to translate…

./tony

I would have liked to have pushed code with support for posting to posterous, but, alas, that did NOT happen. I really tried, though. As you may know, I have already written a bash script that posts to posterous, and I thought it would be trivial to “translate” that to tcl, but it didn’t prove as trivial as I’d hoped.

hacking Xpostulate

First, posterous API requires [square brackets] in the data sent. I had difficulty working that out in my tcl proc, since tcl interprets [stuff between such brackets] as commands. Thankfully, the guys in #tcl @freenode were quite helpful (as always), and I did get that worked out. What I didn’t get worked out, for reasons still unclear to me, was authentication, which is really weird, since I’ve succeeded in authenticating and sending posts with curl.
If anybody wants to take a look, the last code I tried is pasted to my pastebin here (you may see a couple of earlier pastes with other attempts, as well). I tried with auth_method clear, which works on tumblr, and with a base64 basic auth method. I kept getting 401 Unauthorized errors, even though I a sent the very same username:password and api_token that I use with my bash script.

I any case, what I DID manage was to work out a couple of little errors in the code that were hindering statusnet updates (doh…now sure how I missed them before), and I added a button to clear the status.net update field, which is handy.

I also altered the readme, about, and help to reflect the new site location, as well.

I’m not sure when I’ll get back to wrestling with posterous, but I’ll try to get on that soon.

Also, of course, getting Xpostulate to play with Blogger is on the agenda, as is packaging Xpostulate for Debian and trying to get her in Sid.

./tony