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So last week, I shared my Nagios script for checking the pizza orders around the Pentagon and the Whitehouse – and this week, I thought I’d share another of my customised Nagios plugins – again based on scraping the content of a webpage. It came about because I needed to print something, and the shitty…

I’ve always had a vague fascination with how people can take data and make huge leaps into the darkness with them, carrying a light they’ve somehow fashioned out of the madness. Okay, it’s a bit of a tortured metaphor, and an overworked title, but it doesn’t make it any the less true. My first recollection…