May 2011
1 post
Research home page of Clinton Burfoot →
Link to research home page of Clinton Burfoot.
April 2011
1 post
Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada |... →
May 2009
1 post
"Import from Clipboard" for Zotero
I spent a half day recently learning the necessary XUL and Javascript to add an “import from clipboard” function to Zotero. This is a big improvement on my my old process for adding entries with BibTex embedded in a web page. Previously I had to:
Copy the BibTex to the clipboard
Paste it into a temporary file
Choose the import from file function
This got frustrating very quickly....
April 2009
1 post
rsdl.py: command-line downloads from...
I’ve been using rapidshare.com a lot lately (don’t ask). When you’re downloading a lot of files it gets to be a real pain clicking through manually and waiting for the “you freeloader” countdown. This afternoon’s fun with Python was a quick script to batch downloads from the command line. Use it as follows:
% ./rsdl.py...
November 2008
1 post
In your face 15 year old self!
High score of 112,699,495 on the Steel Wheel table in Pinball Dreams.
Now if I can just finish Monkey Island I need never play games again.
July 2008
3 posts
“In the past ten days, a Ukrainian and a German ship have been freed after paying...”
– The Indian Ocean | The most dangerous seas in the world | Economist.com
“a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured...”
– Developer Guide - Protocol Buffers - Google Code
Council on Foreign Relations →
“A Nonpartisan Resource for Information and Analysis”
June 2008
10 posts
Personal Databases
My Mac does a great job of providing me with the tools I need to make data management efficient. Mail.app, Eclipse, Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, iTunes etc take care of their respective data types with style. I normally use my text editor to keep track of arbitrary structured data that isn’t covered by a tool I like. I’ve got backup records, financial data, minutes and notes from...
“Today, we announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide...”
– Official Google Blog: Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo!
Technology and Courage - Ivan Sutherland →
A 1996 paper drawn from a 1982 speech on motivations to (not) do technology work. Sutherland is apparently a bit of a genius. It worked for me.
“There’s no question Kindle is a hit. To what degree is hard to tell...”
– Is Kindle the iPod of e-books? | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/10/2008
Dani Rodrik's weblog →
“Unconventional thoughts on economic development and globalization”. Rodrik is a Harvard economist.
SVMlight with Python
I recently needed a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier for a document classification experiment written in Python. I chose to use Thorsten Joachims’ SVMlight. I couldn’t find a Python interface, so I wrote a simple shell-based one.
class SVMLight:
"""
An interface class for U{SVM light<http://svmlight.joachims.org/>}
This class currently supports...
Apple - Server - Mac OS X Leopard - Snow Leopard →
ZFS makes it on to the planned feature list for OS X Server, but apparently not for the desktop edition.
Disqus →
A platform-independent comment service. Now powering comments on this blog. Web 2.0 really is the business.
Seasons 1-5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm are $15 each at JB Hifi in Bourke St (Melbourne). Gold.
fluid →
Site specific browser for Leopard.