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I’ve decided to release the source code for my old desktop. It’s available in all it’s glory here. You’ll need these PHP libraries in order for it to work:

• Smarty, a templating engine for PHP. Simply just great.
• MagpieRSS, a RSS parser for PHP.

If I were you I wouldn’t have used the weather code. It sucks for these reasons:

• It queries the met.no server every page load, which is slow.
• It uses a somewhat ugly approach to getting the data.
• It’s very error-prone.
• It nags met.no’s server too much. God knows, maybe they’ll blacklist you after a while.

If you can’t get the script to work, here’s a short check-list:

• You haven’t created the MySQL database.
• You haven’t made the directory template_c.
• You haven’t added any feeds to the feed list.
• You haven’t added any fortunes to the fortune list. Check Wikiquote.

Enjoy.