[macvoiceover] Clipme the clipboard archiver

OK here it is a tool to make a clipboard log file. It's an AppleScript and if you install in your ~/Library/Scripts directory and activate the AppleScript menu you will then have this tool in every application. If you use spark you can assign it a hotkey to make it's use even faster. 

Usage
When run clipme will create a file called -clipmelog.txt in your Documents directory. Note that the name starts with a hyphen. This is to make it the first, or close to the first, document in any list.
Now go to safari or any other program and select some text and copy it to the clipboard.
Now run the clipme script either from the script menu or from the command you associated it with in Spark or a similar utility. The text of the clipboard along with the date and time of the clip will be appended to the end of the -clipmelog.txt file.
Because this is just an AppleScript, indeed the code for it is at the end of this document. You can change the name of the log file and how it handles the date and so on.
The clipme installer will install this script in your ~/Library/ Scripts folder but if you are using Spark you could move it to where ever you like. You may need to use the AppleScript Utility in the AppleScript directory of your Applications directory to turn on the AppleScript menu. 

The clipme installer can be found at http://w3.wmcnet.org/vo/clipme.zip

Here is the script itself:
--clipme the clipboard archiver by Greg Kearney, Wyoming Medical Center May 2007 

set theclip to the clipboard

set this_data to ((current date) as string) & return & theclip & return
set this_file to (((path to documents folder) as text) & "- clipmelog.txt") 
my write_to_file(this_data, this_file, true)
say "clip me!"


on write_to_file(this_data, target_file, append_data)
        try
                set the target_file to the target_file as text
                set the open_target_file to ¬
                        open for access file target_file with write permission
                if append_data is false then ¬
                        set eof of the open_target_file to 0
                write this_data to the open_target_file starting at eof
                close access the open_target_file
                return true
        on error
                try
                        close access file target_file
                end try
                return false
        end try
end write_to_file

--end clipme>

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