October 31

Tested Google Desktop

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I just tested Google Desktop today, and found it to be very useful although I uninstalled it right afterwards because of the limitations of where the database would be stored. Also, I’m testing GMail Drive right now and it works like a charm. However, there is a filesize limit of 10MB which can be bypassed by using a file splitter.

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GmailFS and Gmail Drive

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That’s right. You can use Gmail as a harddrive: GmailFS for Linux users and Gmail Drive for Windows users. Very cool.

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October 30

Internet Vets For Truth

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Internet Vets For Truth: Share the link!

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October 14 (8)

This is Stephen Gillingham

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I’m doing homework, and then in the process of visiting MegaTokyo to read the latest strip, I suddenly had an epiphany and realized that the Canadian dude that Piro features in his comics is actually Steve Gillingham!This image is proof, and I wouldn’t doubt that Steve would say something like that too!

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Google Desktop

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Google now has search for the local computer. Since the program requires 1GB of space on installation, I decided to stick with normal windows search. But has anyone any experience in this?

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Approval Voting

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Today, Ms. Quintal, a political scientist from NYU came to speak about participating in an approval voting data collection drive. After school, I fire up my RSS feed reader and what do you know, Kuroshin has an article about approval voting! I have way too many coincidences in my life. I don’t even bother to list them all.

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October 11

In Memory of Christopher Reeves

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Christopher Reeve died today. The world lost another hero. In the [modified] words of Dom from Megatokyo: Christopher Reeve once made us believe that a man could fly, and spent the later years of himself convincing us that a man could walk.

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October 10 (2)

I’m on Weblog Tools Collection

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mX Wordpress Style

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October 9 (1)

The Horror of Human Rights in China

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In 2000, Ian Johnson of the Wall Street Journal investigated the reports of Falun Gong practioner abuse, and published a series of investigative articles that won him the Pulitzer Prize the following year. The articles tell horrifying stores.

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October 7

Barron/Pinkmonkey Notes Extractor

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So another day of reading Paradise Lost which, I admit, when read correctly is a very good work of literature. Looking into notes to supplement my reading of Paradise Lost, I found the comprehensive Barron’s Book Notes on Paradise Lost. However, as you may see on the TOC page, I would have to do a lot of clicking to read through the notes! This is unacceptable! Also, what if I wanted to place the notes on my calculator for reading? I would have to copy and paste a lot of text.

Therefore, like any good Computer Scientist, I decided to use the computer to accomplish the task of merging all of the pages into one note file. First, I used wget to quickly download all of the html pages. Whew! That’s half of the work! Now, I had to extract the text from the 90+ messy HTML files. This is where Python programming comes in :).

I wrote BarronNotesExtractor.py (3.43KB) which does the job of extracting text from the HTML pages and placing them in one nifty text file. I used a lot of pattern matching which could have probably been done much better by a Python guru (which I am not). Nevertheless, the script accomplishes its task very quickly (~3 seconds)! No more clicking links and watching ads!

Now back to work!

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