You could notice that, since December, WatchBot started to have connectivity problems. The most visible effect is that a lot of games are splitted into many separate parts in spite of the fact that no adjournment by players took place.

I started using RememberTheMilk more seriously, faced some limitations, decided to script over them and, in the result, my previously described module evolved to mekk.rtm.

In the past I wrote some helper tools for Nozbe, but today I am telling this service good bye. Short explanation why can be found below, but mainly I publish this article to describe how I moved my projects and actions from Nozbe to RememberTheMilk.

Important update to my Calibre scripts (described previously here and here):

• Calibre 0.7.* is supported and should work,
• installation and distribution method has completely changed, the package is now available from pypi, so can be easy_install-ed.

Two small updates to the WatchBot website:

• whispers made by the people playing the game are marked with different background color,
• new quick search option is present in the sidebar.

Some updates to my Calibre helper scripts (which I described previously here): ISBN guessing script covers wider range of file formats, there are also two new scripts: one converts all .doc files to .rtf, another one crosschecks disk directory against Calibre database and reports documents not registered by Calibre.

A few small, but possibly useful improvements of the WatchBot search. It is now possible to search games by the result, use any rating ranges, and limit search to games commented by at least a few players.

I updated WatchBot website a little bit, adding some new filtering/navigation options which make it possible to reach older games. Also, it is now possible to follow WatchBot on Twitter.

As I recently bought Sony PRS-600 (fairly good reader with nice touch screen, in case you read Polish see my review), I become interested in ebook management. For Linux user it looks like the only reasonable option is to use Calibre - useful application which not only lets me manage my reader, but also provides well designed ebook database.

One of the nice Calibre options is that once you enter a book ISBN, plenty of useful information (canonical versions of author name and book title, description, cover, even tags) can be downloaded automatically. But, for some reason, the application does not detect ISBN. I repeated the sequence open a book, go a page or a few down, copy ISBN, go back to Calibre, open book data, paste ISBN a few times and decided it is boring and could be automated.

So I wrote a short script which performs this very action.

I updated Nozbe2XMind a bit, published all project sources, and moved distribution to PyPi so it can be installed using standard easy_install.