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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Back to the old theme. I also decided it was about time to drop my little welcome message, seeing as it's been there for over 5 years.
Anyway, I just saw an advert for Titanic on DVD, with an alternative ending. Please, will somebody buy this and tell me if they all die?
When I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm going to film a new version of Titanic. Involving a hitman cyborg from the future, sent back through time to destroy the Rose before she can be saved and go on to recite her story for 194 minutes.
Damn ...
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On Friday, at the request of Vas, I wrote a small and simple pattern matching engine to take a plain text reference and turn it into a BibTeX reference. It's a difficult task to do automatically, given that to interpret a plain text reference takes some human intelligence. My script takes simple formats like '%author%, %title% (%year%)', or you can extend it to match regular expressions, like '%/(\d+\. )%%author/.+?(?<!\b.)%. %title%.' Oh, and it does other things too; allows you to insert comments, and also lets you set the type.
It's not perfect; there appear to be some ...
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Hello and welcome to my super-scary halloween decorations. I hope you are not too scared.
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It works! I sorted my library stuff, and it's pretty good, even if I do say so myself.
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After TR and honeycomb closed ages ago, I've got out of touch with people. So I've started a quiet talker for us semi-retired spods to idle in peace - anyone interested should contact me for the address. Haven't decided whether it's going to be permanent or not, it depends on how popular it is; if nobody ever logs on, ever, then there's not really much point keeping it going. But it would be nice to have somewhere to keep in touch, so I probably will keep it running. If I do, it will move addresses, which ...
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