A few years ago I discovered a tool called webchat which allowed you to script interactions with a website. You wrote things like:

GET http://www.perl.com
EXPECT OK && /perl/
GET not_there.html
EXPECT ERROR
BACK
BACK

and it would go fetch the page, see that it contained [...]

There’s nothing quite like keeping an etiquette blog to make you feel like a fraud.
I just started a new job back home in Australia, and realised how much I love arguing with Australian geeks. If there’s a geek tendency to say “NO THAT’S WRONG” without any attempt at politeness, it goes double on this [...]