corpusifier.py
A script I’m writing to extract text from emails in a Gmail mailbox into a single plain text file. Python, IMAP… We’ll use it to record a corpus (hence the ugly name) for the 1,000 Tables event (1KT)....
View ArticleWhoosh on Google App Engine
Whoosh was recently patched to work on Google App Engine (GAE), so it does, but we’re seeing a small, consistent, performance problem. Search is annoyingly slow. As always, this challenge has unique...
View ArticleDynamic IP
Need to access my home computers when on the road, from my netbook. But ISP assigns me a dynamic IP — seemingly stable, never seen it change, but in principle it might. Usually, I’d use DynDNS‘s free...
View ArticleMHTifier and notes
Needed to hack MHT (MHTML) files under unreal circumstances, trying to inject some sense (viz JavaScript) into the output of a “legacy” BI thingy… Nu. Prior art It’s an ancient (not to say obsolete)...
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