Org-Quotes
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This was a quick weekend (well, two Fridays and a Sunday) project to
do some org-mode file parsing to get some useful work done.

make-post.php
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This was the original Friday hack.

The idea is that we have an org-mode file with a specific structure:

    * Root Element
    ** Reporter One Name
    *** First Source-Person Name
        Quote body text
    *** Second Source-Person Name
        Quote body text
    ** Reporter Two Name

We parse that, offer an HTML form to select one quote from each
reporter, then dump all the selected quotes to a (partial) HTML file
that we can use as a Wordpress post.

word2org.sh
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This happened later that Friday, when I had to deal with some quotes
that had already been typed by an assistant.

The assistant had typed up a bunch of quotes into Microsoft Word.
Blech. Fortunately for me she(? I haven't actually met said person)
did it in a fairly disciplined structure, so that after copy/pasting
into a text-file, I could parse it into an org-mode file with the
above structure. I wrote a quickie bash script to do this.

For reference, the format of this text is:

    “Quote body”
    - Quote Source

    “Quote body”
    - Quote Source
    
    Reporter: Reporter Name

upload-org.php/upload-ms-word.php
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The next week I discovered that the proxy I had to work behind had
been reconfigured, and I couldn't figure out tunnel SSH through it.
So I couldn't SSH in, paste the MS Word data into an Emacs buffer,
then run it through `word2org.sh`, then `mv` it to the location looked
for by [what is now named] `make-post.php`. So, when I got home I
make `upload-msword.php` and `upload-org.php` so that I could paste in
either org-mode or MS Word formatted quotes from a browser behind the
proxy, and still get work done /at work/.

So yeah, `upload-msword.php` uses the system() PHP call to run
word2org. Go ahead, shoot me, but this was never meant to be a
polished project.

Other Notes
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Yeah, I did all the bad-practice spitting-out-HTML-from-logic-code
and using globals stuff.  This was a quickie hack.  It's basically
just one PHP script (at least on the PHP side).  Don't worry, my other
projects use MVC and all that.