ebooks - the way they should behave

getting rid of fucking exceptions

  def tryOr[T](message: String)(action: => T) = {
    try {
      Some(action)
    } catch {
      case e: Throwable => {
        Log.error(message, e)
        None
      }
    }
  }

using like

tryOr("Oi-vei, could not find...") { database.findUserNamed("Captain Nemo") }

Could use Either as well, I don't know.
Gradually morphing from Java.