Bill de hÓra

Mozilla mail imports .pst files!

Awesome.!! Half the reason I'm still using Outlook is that I could never figure out how to get my mail out of .PST files into something reasonable like an mbox. One reason to get off PST is this: whenever I archive a PST file to CD, Outlook won't read it back in - it tells me I don't have the permissions. Note that it will read PSTs from ZIP drives or if I gzip the PST first and then archive it and unzip later.

I'm so thankful for this. Moz is now my default browser.

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From the people that brought your Citeseer: NewsSeer. With all the hoopla about Google news, how did i miss this?

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Tim Peters and ESR on spam filters: [Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/nondist/sandbox/spambayes GBayes.py,1.7,1.8

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Paul Graham is hacking a spam filter that uses Bayesian probabilities.

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This week has been a blur of XSLT sheets and openoffice templates.

We've been generating Openoffice documents from XML data feeds all week. XSLT, is ... XSLT. I'm glad I don't use it on daily basis.

Openoffice however is remarkable. I was expecting a junk XML format with indecipherable floating point numbers, urns, and cryptic tags. Not at all. Oo has a very clean XML under the hood. Once you get your head around how styles work it's straightforward to generate Oo documents. Oo uses the Zip file format. I understand this was the subject of much debate - but it seems like a great idea to me at the tail end of a week hacking it. It makes the documents easy to manipulate.

When I think about stuff like postscript, Tex, nroff and Docbook, well... who would have though publishing could be fun? I thought Oo was just an office suite. Now it looks like a document publishing format that has a wysiwyg editor throw in for good measure.

Posted by Bill de hÓra at 09:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Spent Monday to Wednesday in Propylon Labs. We had to generate a lot of XSLT in a few days. The labs are in Enniscrone, which is a beautiful place indeed - even if it did snow!

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Religion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful.

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And why not?

I've spent a few weeks with Blogger and Greymatter. Blogger requires pro to be useful and Greymatter while having a very nice UI seems to have a bug with its frontpage - it keeps reverting back to its default main page. Otherwise its a great app.

I was enjoying MT. Until I tried to import from GM. That was a bust. The import munger failed on some dates (they looked valid to me!), so I had to remove some entries. Then all the imports appeared as one day's entries - *sigh*. I'll do it by hand

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