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Plasma Wed Mar 23 2005 at 11:24 pm
yeah, it's automated

I wrote a PHP script to grab the news from all the sites. A cron job runs the script at 5:00 am EST every morning. If the cron job doesn't execute for some reason, the page will update itself the next time it is viewed.

Makes "updating" very easy. :)

Just stumbled onto the Scene News section.. - DrV (Wed Mar 23 2005 at 10:10 pm)

yeah, it's automated - Plasma (Wed Mar 23 2005 at 11:24 pm)
- cron... reminds me of corn. i wonder why. :-P * - subxero (Sun Mar 27 2005 at 2:08 am)

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