Failing Miserably, If Not Inventively

My latest O'Reilly article, "Failing Miserably, If Not Inventively":

This is a tale of how Panther broke my automation and how, with a few days of disjointed searching, experimentation, and dreaming, I didn't fix the problem. Instead, we simply follow one man's obsession as he makes steadily more-desperate attempts to scratch a bothersome itch.