Fitting the battle of life

Well, having read this blog post this morning, I wondered why on earth I should have yet another window open to update my twitter status. Twitux is all very fine and dandy, but so many more mouse-clicks away than I wanted. At times like these, Google is our friend.

There is are two relevant pages, this one which describes how to use a script from this site (to view updates and update your own status) in irssi. However, just downloading the wd script doesn’t work: it depends on a couple of packages I didn’t have. A little apt-cache searching reveals the following two packages with which it did indeed work:

libjson-perl
libdatetime-format-strptime-perl
(You’ll also need libwww-perl, but I already did)

Installing both of those let me run the wd script, showing my friend’s updates. At the moment for testing purposes I have the script in my ~/.irssi/scripts/ folder, and run it using /script load, but want now to be able to run it as /exec wd to follow the instructions on the first site. Hmm, guess that’ll mean moving it somewhere and creating an alias in the terminal?

(I will continue this once I get back from a booze run for a house party tonight!)