Yesterday I bought Kevin Hemenway's book "Spidering Hacks". It seems, at first glance, to be an amazingly useful book. While I don't expect that there's much in here that I could not figure out on my own, with time and motivation, I think that the book provides a box of tools that will save me an enormous amount of those two precious comodoties.
And, I should note, the acknowledgements of the book speak of me lovingly, and I just could not resist:
... to Rich and Ken for being my scapegoats ("well, hey, at least I'm not that late") ...
heh, heh
Morbus++