Month: May 2011
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Hanna (2011) – IMDb
Hanna (2011) – IMDb Looks like this is going to be my Friday night movie …
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/tmp/docview500 ???
I found that directory on my openSUSE Linux computer, with really a lot of files, whose names were derived from files in my home directory. The time stamps were quite recent. I have no idea, which software created that directory (tree). It would be a relief to know it was KDE, but actually why should…
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“A picture is worth a thousand words”
A picture is worth a thousand words – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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extracting infos from a rather detailed PDF (from a software developer’s point of view)
If I access PDF, I rather read the XML created by “pdfthtml -xml” for a PDF file. Although there are features, that I miss with XML::Simple, I find that module rather convenient. Think of a pay slip as PDF. It has quite a regular structure. (Of course, you might also want to receive an XML…
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Blogger Buzz: Add a virtual tip jar to your blog
Blogger Buzz: Add a virtual tip jar to your blog Google Checkout as competition to Flattr. I have not made reasonable amounts of money through Flattr yet; I have no idea, how it works for real writers; question is, whether Google Checkout will make it easier to earn money through sharing “text” on the web.…
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how does Skype show you to yourself?
Skype on Mac OS X shows you, as if you look into a mirror – I find that rather “natural” and “usual”, just what I prefer. Skype on Windows seems to show you “the other way round” – like other people see you. If you are having a video conversation via Skype, you will occasionally…
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XML text nodes in Ruby and Perl
the Ruby REXML Tutorial deals with this. in Perl …