powerschool webscraper?

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
> It's also making me depressed how terrible the internet has
> become.

  Yes.

> Why does an extremely simple, automatable task like "check if
> posted grades have changed" require a human being to spend valuable time
> poking buttons (or programming a very faithful simulation thereof)?

  Because software these days is mostly about chasing buzzwords and
fashion trends, and not about information.

  The current crop of crap appeals to the same mentality that thought
the <BLINK> tag was a good idea.

  (Aside: I've just discovered (for myself) that if you search for
"blink tag", Google makes all matching occurrences blink.)

-- Ben