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A complete and utter starter Python script
A friend said that it was the duty of a computer scientist to learn a new computer language a year and asked me to introduce him to Python.
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Sap Rising
Just before it got colder (this morning), I could have sworn that Spring was in the air. I went for a walk yesterday with my Nordic sticks in Treptower Park and it was not half as bleak mid Winter as I’d thought. Green leaves poking through - something in the …
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Hmm, not so sure about last post
Already come a cropper, hoist by my own petard, etc etc
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Python script to rename all tracknames in a gpx file with the first trackpoint date
[LATER EDIT: please don’t use this script - see here for an improved version]
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Install an Android APK file
I asked Peter to write us an Android application for reporting our mood at periodic intervals to go with recording everywhere we go with a GPS and saving all our text messages. Eventually, we could geo-locate these moods and match them up with any text messages we might be writing …
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My Method of collecting GPS tracks (to improve - this post and the method)
Answering an email today from William Heath about how to collect GPS data, I thought it a good idea to once and for all, write out what I do, as much for my own reference as for anyone else who comes across this dusty corner of the Internet, so here …
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Emacs heaven
Peter Vasil just revolutionised my life (again) when he took me through the Emacs starter kit and showed me his copy of the PeepCode Meet Emacs screencast. So much works out of the box, I don’t now remember what the ‘kit’ fixed. Peter also shared his {username}.el file …
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Learning Emacs in Brazil
I’m here in Brazil at the arte.mov festival which is probably the best festival I’ve ever been to in terms of hospitality. We were in Belo Horizonte last week and now we’re in São Paulo with a fantastic group of artists, writers, activists and programmers …
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List of programmes I re-install after a linux OS new install
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glc is not the greater london council any more
Aah those were the days, the height of Thatcherism and Red Ken still ruling a socialist London (she put a stop to that of course) Story here
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